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Measuring the Rate of Lipolysis in Ex Vivo Murine Adipose Tissue and Primary Preadipocytes Differentiated In Vitro
Published on: March 17, 2023
Comment on Lin et al. Reconsidering Adipose Tissue Lipolysis Dysfunction: Evidence for a Distal Machinery Defect
Giovanni Ragozzino1, Maria Teresa Cantelli2, Elisabetta Fulgione2
1Department of Environmental Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta and Naples, Italy.
Diabetes
|May 20, 2026
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