Adipocyte Fatty Acid–Binding Protein Suppresses Cardiomyocyte Contraction: A New Link Between Obesity and Heart Disease - Lamounier-Zepter, Valéria; Look, Christiane; Alvarez, Julio; Christ, Torsten; Ravens, Ursula; Schunck, Wolf-Hagen; Ehrhart-Bornstein, Monika; Bornstein, Stefan R.; Morano, Ingo (Circulation research, 2009)
Keywords: Action Potentials - drug effects; Adipocytes - secretion; Adult; Aged; Animals; Atherosclerosis - metabolism; Biological and medical sciences; Calcium - metabolism; Calcium Signaling - drug effects; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cells, Cultured; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - metabolism; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins - isolation & purification; Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins - pharmacology; Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins - secretion; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Heart; Heart failure, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, cardiac enlargement; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Metabolic diseases; Metabolic Syndrome - metabolism; Middle Aged; Myocardial Contraction - drug effects; Myocytes, Cardiac - metabolism; Obesity; Obesity - metabolism; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Vertebrates: cardiovascular system; Endocrinopathy; Heart failure; Adipocyte; Obesity; Nutrition disorder; Lipids; Metabolic diseases; Cardiovascular disease; Metabolic syndrome; Fatty acids; Contraction; Binding protein; Vertebrata; Mammalia; FABP4; Heart disease; Circulatory system; adipocytes; Nutritional status; Heart cell