Sphingolipids and Metabolic Disease (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology) by L. Ashley Cowart
English | 2011-08-31 | ISBN: 1461406498 | PDF | 166 pages | 3,6 MB
Current thinking holds that obesity derives primarily from overnutrition (though compelling arguments for other mechanisms, like endocrine disruption by environmental pollutants, also gain support from the literature). In animals, overnutrition is initially handled by adipose tissue expansion; however, exhaustion of this route of lipid sequestering results in oversupply of lipid to other tissues including skeletal muscle, heart, liver, and others.