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  • Title: Evidence that the development of hepatic fatty acid oxidation at birth in the rat is concomitant with an increased intramitochondrial CoA concentration.
    Author: Escriva F, Ferre P, Robin D, Robin P, Decaux JF, Girard J.
    Journal: Eur J Biochem; 1986 May 02; 156(3):603-7. PubMed ID: 3699026.
    Abstract:
    The development of hepatic fatty acid oxidation during the perinatal period in the rat was studied using isolated mitochondria. Ketone body synthesis from substrates entering at different levels of beta-oxidation was 2-3 times lower in mitochondria isolated from term-fetal liver than in 16-h-old newborn or adult liver mitochondria. The low rate of palmitoyl-L-carnitine oxidation in term-fetal mitochondria was linked neither to the low capacity of the respiratory chain nor to the removal of acetyl-CoA in the hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA synthase pathway. The 2.5-times lower concentration of CoA found in term-fetal liver mitochondria when compared to 16-h-old or adult liver mitochondria might be the factor responsible for the low rate of fatty acid oxidation in term-fetal liver mitochondria.
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