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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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/ |