Skeletal muscle carnitine loading increases energy expenditure, modulates fuel metabolism gene networks and prevents body fat accumulation in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4655-4666

  Stephens, Francis B ^a   Wall, Benjamin T ^a   Marimuthu, Kanagaraj ^a   Shannon, Chris E ^a   Constantin Teodosiu, Dumitru ^a   Macdonald, Ian A ^a   Greenhaff, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARNITINE; FATTY ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; OXYGEN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FAT MASS; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID METABOLISM; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; UPREGULATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CARNITINE; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PPAR ALPHA;

EID: 84884279440     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.255364     Document Type: Article

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