Cartoon: Metabolic Intake of Pre-Adipocyte vs. Fat Cell (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Cartoon: Metabolic Intake of Pre-Adipocyte vs. Fat Cell

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Cartoon illustrating the difference between the metabolic intake of fat cell precursors (left; glucose) versus differentiated fat cells (right; glucose and branched-chain amino acids).

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Metabolic Systems Biology lab, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

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