| Literature DB >> 25440051 |
Timothy Hla1, Richard Kolesnick2.
Abstract
A substantive literature has accumulated implicating sphingolipids, in particular ceramides, as mediators of insulin resistance in metabolic syndrome. Thanks to recent technical advances in mouse genetics and lipidomics, two independent laboratories identify the same sphingolipid, C16:0-ceramide, as principal mediator of obesity-related insulin resistance (Turpin et al., 2014; Raichur et al., 2014).Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25440051 PMCID: PMC4393079 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.10.017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Metab ISSN: 1550-4131 Impact factor: 27.287