Ketogenic essential amino acids modulate lipid synthetic pathways and prevent hepatic steatosis in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Noguchi, Yasushi ^a,b   Nishikata, Natsumi ^b   Shikata, Nahoko ^b   Kimura, Yoshiko ^b   Aleman, Jose O ^a   Young, Jamey D ^a   Koyama, Naoto ^b   Kelleher, Joanne K ^a,c   Takahashi, Michio ^b   Stephanopoulos, Gregory ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CERAMIDE; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; FAT; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ISOLEUCINE; KETOGENIC ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; LEUCINE; LIPID; LYSINE; SUCROSE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE; AMINO ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FATTY LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID DIET; LIPOGENESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SUGAR INTAKE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERINSULINISM; KETOGENIC DIET; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; FATTY LIVER; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HYPERINSULINISM; KETOGENIC DIET; LIPIDS; LIPOGENESIS; MALE; MICE; OBESITY;

EID: 77957767313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012057     Document Type: Article

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