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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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Autores principales: Maltais-Payette, Ina, Boulet, Marie-Michèle, Prehn, Cornelia, Adamski, Jerzy, Tchernof, André
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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