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Adiposity and metabolic health in mice deficient in intestinal alkaline phosphatase.
Adipocyte - 1 Jan 2018
Vercalsteren Ellen, Vranckx Christine, Lijnen H Roger, Hemmeryckx Bianca, Scroyen Ilse
Abstract excerpt
Intestinal alkaline phosphatase 3 (AKP3) is an enzyme that was reported to play a role in lipid metabolism and to prevent high fat diet-induced metabolic syndrome in mice. To investigate a potential functional role of AKP3 in diet-induced adiposity and metabolic health, we have kept male and female wild-type or AKP3 deficient mice on a high fat diet for 15 weeks to induce obesity and compared those with mice kept...
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