Oxidación continua de ácidos grasos y almacenamiento reducido de grasa en ratones que carecen de acetil-CoA

L Abu-Elheiga1, M M Matzuk, K A Abo-Hashema

  • 1Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 3, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

Los ratones que carecían de acetil-CoA carboxilasa 2 (ACC2) mostraron un aumento de la oxidación de los ácidos grasos y una reducción de la grasa corporal. Esto sugiere que apuntar a ACC2 podría ser una estrategia para el control de peso.

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