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Circulating glutamate concentration as a biomarker of visceral obesity and associated metabolic alterations
BACKGROUND: Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) area is a strong predictor of obesity-related cardiometabolic alterations, but its measurement is costly, time consuming and, in some cases, involves radiation exposure. Glutamate, a by-product of branched-chain-amino-acid (BCAA) catabolism, has been shown t...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6219091/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30450120 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12986-018-0316-5 |