Nature Communications (May 2017)

Impact of fat mass and distribution on lipid turnover in human adipose tissue

  • Kirsty L. Spalding,
  • Samuel Bernard,
  • Erik Näslund,
  • Mehran Salehpour,
  • Göran Possnert,
  • Lena Appelsved,
  • Keng-Yeh Fu,
  • Kanar Alkass,
  • Henrik Druid,
  • Anders Thorell,
  • Mikael Rydén,
  • Peter Arner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15253
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Lipid turnover in tissues can be calculated from ratios of different carbon isotopes. Here the authors use this approach to study lipid turnover in two distinct adipose tissue depots and find that, in obese individuals, visceral fat is more lipolytic than subcutaneous fat.