| Literature DB >> 2001746 |
L P Turcotte1, B Kiens, E A Richter.
Abstract
We investigated the kinetics of palmitate uptake in a physiological skeletal muscle preparation by using the isolated perfused rat hindquarter. When plotted against the unbound plasma palmitate concentration, palmitate uptake displayed a simple Michaelis-Menten relation with a calculated Vmax and Km of 16.3 nmol.min-1.g-1 and 0.06 mumol.l-1, respectively. These results show that, as in isolated cell systems, uptake of free fatty acids in perfused skeletal muscle follows saturation kinetics consistent with carrier-mediated membrane transport of free fatty acids.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 2001746 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(91)80180-b
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124