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SUBMITTER: Wang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3606001 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Hong H Sreenivasan Urmila U Gong Da-Wei DW O'Connell Kelly A KA Dabkowski Erinne R ER Hecker Peter A PA Ionica Nicoleta N Konig Manige M Mahurkar Anup A Sun Yezhou Y Stanley William C WC Sztalryd Carole C
Journal of lipid research 20130123 4
Presence of ectopic lipid droplets (LDs) in cardiac muscle is associated to lipotoxicity and tissue dysfunction. However, presence of LDs in heart is also observed in physiological conditions, such as when cellular energy needs and energy production from mitochondria fatty acid β-oxidation are high (fasting). This suggests that development of tissue lipotoxicity and dysfunction is not simply due to the presence of LDs in cardiac muscle but due at least in part to alterations in LD function. To e ...[more]