Article
Fatty pancreas: an initial indicator of ectopic fat deposition and metabolic syndrome
2022-09-27
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pancreatic steatosis is fat accumulation in the pancreatic gland without fat replacement, this excessive pancreatic lipid content may enter a continuous vicious cycle of hydrolysis and fatty acid re-esterification thereby generating toxic intermediates, which may induce β-cell dysfunction and apoptosis. Several studies were made to study whether these fat depositions are harmful or inert. This study ai...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cfeaffec-a8a3-5625-9179-53c3cdbfb9a8
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2006716/v1
