| Literature DB >> 21109186 |
William C Stanley1, Fabio A Recchia.
Abstract
Intracardiac lipid accumulation can cause heart failure. A study in Journal of Clinical Investigation (Son et al., 2010) found that cardiac-specific PPARγ overexpression caused heart failure with intracardiac triglyceride accumulation. Overexpressing PPARγ on a PPARα-/- background improved cardiac function, suggesting that specific lipid metabolites and lipid packaging determine cardiac lipotoxicity.Entities:
Year: 2010 PMID: 21109186 PMCID: PMC3330240 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2010.11.016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Metab ISSN: 1550-4131 Impact factor: 27.287