Fatty acid composition and development of hepatic lipidosis during food deprivation-mustelids as a potential animal model for liver steatosis

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 278-286

  Nieminen, Petteri ^a,b   Mustonen, Anne Mari ^a   Kärjä, Vesa ^c   Asikainen, Juha ^a   Rouvinen Watt, Kirsti ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Institute of Biomedicine   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fatty acids; Hepatic lipidosis; Mustela putorius; NAFLD; PUFA

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ARGININE; ENDOCANNABINOID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FERRET; FOOD DEPRIVATION; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; MALE; MUSTELIDAE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DISEASE MODEL; FATTY LIVER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIPIDOSIS; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA PUTORIUS; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; MUSTELIDAE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; DIET; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY LIVER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HUMANS; LIPIDOSES; LIVER; MUSTELIDAE;

EID: 63349089011     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0806-RM-210     Document Type: Article

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