Hyperlipid

Just a brief post on the development of NASH in long term ketogenic fed mice because I've been side tracked by some other papers: Starva...

Question: How do you convert a C57BL/6 mouse in to a FIRKO mouse? Answer: Easily. First, break your mouse. Both the grey squares and white t...

As we all know, there is a spate of new books out at the moment. I see that Dr Briffa is on Jimmy Moore's LLVDLC. John sent me a copy of...

Okay. I have an apology to make. I'm not sure there will be an MCQ test on the FIRKO mouse to parallel that on the LIRKO mouse . At this...

Let's start with the old Stranglers track, "No More Heros", take an ice pick to a rat's brain and make its ears burn. OK, ...

There are various little one-liner papers which I've tripped over in the last few weeks which are probably worth a post although are not...

Serving suggestions for soured cream not really needed... The ginger cake (in the last post) isn't really low carb but it helps keep the...

Danish butter is on offer in at least one UK supermarket, currently 10% less than economy butter. Surprise surprise. No better way to eat (g...

Just a brief respite from mitochondria: Adipotide is a drug which targets the blood vessels supplying adipose tissue. It causes impressive f...

**************EDIT - This is serious************** It has been pointed out that this post is a deliberate intention to mislead. I would like...

This post is highly speculative. It doesn't have any answers. Here is a nice quote to begin with: "If you want to retain your sanit...

Right, back to links from Mary Rogge's paper on the role of impaired mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in the obese. She links to Rude...

It was in late 2007 that I first blogged about the concept of adipocyte insulin resistance and of course it is back in my mind while I work...

Ali prompted me to put up this link and I see Barry Groves has something up about it too. I think it was Iain Banks who wrote about corpora...

Our daughter eats everything. Her ultimate favourite food so far is a purée of pig heart casseroled in red wine. We tried her on a banana, h...

This Figure 4 from the paper by Shulman's group on mitchondrial dysfunction in the offspring of T2DM parents, the one the EMs came from...