Acetyl-l-carnitine supplementation reverses the age-related decline in carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT1) activity in interfibrillar mitochondria without changing the l-carnitine content in the rat heart

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 133, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 99-106

  Gómez, Luis A ^a,b   Heath, Shi Hua D ^a   Hagen, Tory M ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetyl l carnitine; Aging; Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1; Interfibrillar mitochondria; Kinetics

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; CARNITINE; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE I; LEVACECARNINE; PALMITOYL COENZYME A;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME KINETICS; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT; HEART MITOCHONDRION; INTERFIBRILLAR MITOCHONDRION; LIPOLYSIS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RAT;

ACETYLCARNITINE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CARNITINE; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; KINETICS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIA, HEART; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCARDIUM; PALMITOYL COENZYME A; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

RATTUS;

EID: 84857782934     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: 18726216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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