Lipid droplets: FSP27 knockout enhances their sizzle

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2693-2696

  Puri, Vishwajeet ^a   Czech, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; FAT SPECIFIC PROTEIN 27; GLUCOSE; PERILIPIN;

DIET; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; KNOCKOUT GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID STORAGE; LIPOLYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL ENERGY TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; UPREGULATION; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; LIPOLYSIS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEINS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 48749104591     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI36554     Document Type: Note

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