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| | Tissue-specific Expression and Dietary Regulation of Chimeric Mitochondrial 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl Coenzyme A ... |
 | | The activity of the latter increases with fasting, fat feeding, diabetes, glucagon administration, and with the transition from the fetal to the suckling state(1, 2), and these effects are accompanied by an increase in the mRNA levels for this gene(3). |
 | | The close correspondence between the increase in mRNA levels, enzyme activity, and ketogenesis has also been observed in the intestine and liver of suckling pups(4, 5), which reinforces the hypothesis that it is the main regulatory point in ketogenesis, both in adult and neonatal rats. |
 | | In a similar manner, the serum levels of total ketone bodies were not modified by the occurrence of the transgene (Table 3). |
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