The Role of Fatty Acids on Toll-like Receptor 4 Regulation of Substrate Metabolism with Obesity

Growing evidence suggests that obesity and associated metabolic dysregulation occurs in concert with chronic low-grade inflammation. Toll-like receptors (TLR) are transmembrane receptors that play an important role in innate immunity and the induction of inflammatory responses. Our laboratory has ob...

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Main Author: McMillan, Ryan P.
Other Authors: Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38698
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07082009-205233/