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SUBMITTER: Schulz JG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4295106 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20150115
The brain's impotence to utilize long-chain fatty acids as fuel, one of the dogmas in neuroscience, is surprising, since the nervous system is the tissue most energy consuming and most vulnerable to a lack of energy. Challenging this view, we here show in vivo that loss of the Drosophila carnitine palmitoyltransferase 2 (CPT2), an enzyme required for mitochondrial β-oxidation of long-chain fatty acids as substrates for energy production, results in the accumulation of triacylglyceride-filled lip ...[more]