ea0020p493 | Obesity and Metabolism | ECE2009
Akcay Gungor
, Akcay Mufide Nuran
Backgraound: The liver occupies a central position in lipid metabolism. Free fatty acids (FFAs) are taken up by the liver to join the hepatic pool of FFA, a portion of which the liver synthesizes. Fatty liver occurs when lipid accumulation exceeds the normal 5% of liver weight. In the macrovesicular type, large fat droplets balloon the liver cell, displacing the nucleus to the periphery of the cell, like an adipocyte. Triglyceride accumulates most commonly because it has the h...