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Obesity-associated, but not obesity-independent, tumors respond to insulin by increasing mitochondrial glucose oxidation

Obesity is associated with increased incidence and worse prognosis of more than one dozen tumor types; however, the molecular mechanisms for this association remain under debate. We hypothesized that insulin, which is elevated in obesity-driven insulin resistance, would increase tumor glucose oxidat...

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Autores principales: Rabin-Court, Aviva, Rodrigues, Marcos R., Zhang, Xian-Man, Perry, Rachel J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31188872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218126