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Mechanisms in Adipose Tissue: Does Fat Have Anything to Say About Lean Body Mass?

Lean body mass is essential to regulate fat body mass in animals through ordinary cellular mechanisms such as decrease of inflammatory status, decrease in fatty acid metabolic pathways and changes in growth and development. These mechanisms were investigated in lean body mass phenotypes induced either by a high-protein diet, exercise or a diet containing conjugated linoleic acid.