Hepatic and adipose tissue lipogenic enzyme mRNA levels are suppressed by high fat diets in the rat.

Small changes in lipogenic enzyme activity induced by dietary fats of different composition may, over the long term, have significant impact on the development of obesity. We have investigated the effect of high fat diets (45% of calories as fat) on abundance of mRNA encoding fatty acid synthetase (...

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Main Authors: G Shillabeer, J Hornford, JM Forden, NC Wong, DC Lau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1990-04-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520428305