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Old fat, make way for new fat

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PPARα reduces fat accumulation and enhances insulin sensitivity, but exactly how it operates has been unclear. Work on mice suggests that newly synthesized fat—but not preexisting fat—activates this transcription factor.

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Gibbons, G. Old fat, make way for new fat. Nat Med 11, 722–723 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0705-722

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