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ADIPOSE tissue, long considered an inert storehouse, has recently been shown to have intense metabolic activity. In spite of the importance of coenzyme A in fat metabolism, the existence of coenzyme A activity had not been demonstrated in adipose tissue. The present communication does so and in addition directs attention to the differences in this respect between normal and obese animals and, among the latter, between animals with ‘regulatory’ obesity and animals with ‘metabolic’ obesity1,2.
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THOMPSON, M., MAYER, J. Coenzyme A Content of Adipose Tissue. Nature 186, 640–641 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186640a0
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