Adipose tissue palmitoleic acid and obesity in humans: does it behave as a lipokine?
Open Access
- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 93 (1) , 186-191
Abstract
Background: Animal models have shown that adipose-derived palmitoleic acid may serve as a lipokine that contributes to resistance to diet-induced obeKeywords
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