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Fetuin-A: the missing link in lipid-induced inflammation

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The liver secretory protein fetuin-A (FetA) is now shown to act as an adaptor protein between free fatty acids (FFAs) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), providing the missing link between FFAs and chronic low-grade inflammation that impairs insulin sensitivity (pages 1279–1285).

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Figure 1: FetA functions as an adaptor between FFAs and TLR4 signaling in lipid-induced inflammation.

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  1. Jan Heinrichsdorff and Jerrold M. Olefsky are in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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Heinrichsdorff, J., Olefsky, J. Fetuin-A: the missing link in lipid-induced inflammation. Nat Med 18, 1182–1183 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.2869

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