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C16:0-Ceramide Signals Insulin Resistance

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CELL METABOLISM
Volume 20, Issue 5, Pages 703-705

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.10.017

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  1. NCI NIH HHS [P01 CA077839] Funding Source: Medline

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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).

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