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Intrahepatic fat, not visceral fat, is linked with metabolic complications of obesity

Fabbrini E, Magkos F, Mohammed BS, Pietka T, Abumrad NA, Patterson BW, Okunade A, Klein S. Intrahepatic fat, not visceral fat, is linked with metabolic complications of obesity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. September 2009;106(36):15430-15435.

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Publication Date
September 2009

How Analyze was Used
“Intraabdominal and abdominal s.c. adipose tissue volumes were quantified by magnetic resonance imaging (Siemens; ANALYZE 7.0 software …) [Korenblat et al. 2008] and IHTG [intrahepatic triglyceride] content was measured by using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy.”

Keywords
Antigens, CD36/metabolism
Body Composition
DNA Primers
Female
Glucose/metabolism
Glucose Clamp Technique
Humans
Intra-Abdominal Fat/metabolism/pathology
Lipoproteins, VLDL/analysis
Liver/chemistry
Male
Metabolic Diseases/etiology
Obesity/complications
Palmitates/metabolism
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Triglycerides/analysis

Author Affiliation(s)
Center for Human Nutrition and Atkins Center of Excellence in Obesity Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, US. (EF, FM, BSM, TP, NAA, BWP, AO, SK)

Center for Clinical and Basic Research, Department of Medical Sciences, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico San Raffaele, Rome 00100, Italy. (EF)

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens 17671, Greece. (FM)

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