Free fatty acids as mediators of adaptiv
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Michela Novelli; Alessandro Pocai; Chiara Chiellini; Margherita Maffei; Pellegri
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Background Chronic low‐dose dexamethasone (DEX) treatment in rats is associated to insulin resistance with compensatory hyperinsulinaemia and reduction in food intake. We tested the hypothesis that the elevation in circulating free fatty acids (FFAs) induced by DEX is the common med