Endocrine Abstracts

The focus of this talk is on how disruptions in the ability of organisms to appropriately store and release lipid can impact on whole organism metabolic health. The talk focuses predominantly on murine phenotyping and discusses how observations from mice can be related to human data.Both healthy mice and humans preferentially use carbohydrate in the fed state and switch to utilising a greater degree of lipid in fasted state. The ability to perform the sw...