Agmatine Stimulates Hepatic Fatty Acid Oxidation

Enhancing hepatic mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation stimulates eating in food-deprived mice.

Hepatic fatty acid oxidation (FAO) has long been implicated in the control of eating. Nevertheless, direct evidence for a causal relationship between changes in hepatic FAO and changes in food intake is still missing. Here we tested whether increasing hepatic FAO via adenovirus-mediated expression of a mutated form of the key regulatory enzyme of mitochondrial FAO carnitine palmitoyltransferase...

Hepatic oleate regulates adipose tissue lipogenesis and fatty acid oxidation.

Hepatic steatosis is associated with detrimental metabolic phenotypes including enhanced risk for diabetes. Stearoyl-CoA desaturases (SCDs) catalyze the synthesis of MUFAs. In mice, genetic ablation of SCDs reduces hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL) and protects against diet-induced hepatic steatosis and adiposity. To understand the mechanism by which hepatic MUFA production influences adipose t...

Hepatic Fatty Acid Oxidation and Ketogenesis in Young Pigs

A primary limitation to efficient pork production is morbidity and mortality during the perinatal period. Because pigs are born with low energy reserves, their survival hinges on timely consumption of milk. In contrast to carbohydrate-based fetal metabolism, the transition to a milk-based diet necessitates rapid biochemical adaptations to accommodate the oxidation of fatty acids which comprise ...

Regulation of hepatic fatty acid oxidation and ketogenesis.

Fatty Acid oxidation defects.

Fatty acid oxidation defects (FAODs) are a group of inborn errors of metabolism that carry a risk for morbidity and mortality. Successful management of these conditions involves early diagnosis, proper management of clinical situations that predisposes to metabolic crisis as well as adequate treatment of a metabolic crisis. The advent of tandem mass spectrometry based newborn screening has redu...