Diet & Nutrition
Reports from Australia, Brazil and Denmark add new data to diet & nutrition research
Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, October 26th, 2006
Study 1: According to recent research from Australia, fatty acids stimulate AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and enhance fatty acid oxidation in L6 myotubes.
"We investigated the role of fatty acid availability on AMPK signalling and fatty acid oxidation in skeletal muscle," wrote M.J. Watt and colleagues, St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research.
"Incubating L6 skeletal muscle myotubes with palmitate (a saturated fatty acid) or linoleate (a polyunsaturated fatty acid) increased AMPK activity by 56 and 38%, respectively, compared with...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2006-10-26)
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