Salivary non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) are proposed to play a role in oral health, oral fat detection, and they may hold diagnostic and prognostic potential. Yet, little is known about the array and concentrations of NEFA in saliva. The aim of the study was to conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of salivary NEFA in healthy humans and to present a new, efficient protocol to perform...

OBJECTIVE Postprandial plasma nonesterified fatty acid (NEFA) appearance is increased in type 2 diabetes. Our objective was to determine whether skeletal muscle uptake of plasma NEFA is abnormal during the postprandial state in type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Thigh muscle blood flow and oxidative metabolism indexes and NEFA uptake were determined using positron emission tomograph...

Consumption by animals and humans of earthy materials such as clay is often related to gut pathologies. Our aim was to determine the impact of kaolinite ingestion on glucose and NEFA transport through the intestinal mucosa. The expression of hexose transporters (Na/glucose co-transporter 1 (SGLT1), GLUT2, GLUT5) and of proteins involved in NEFA absorption (fatty acid transporter/cluster of diff...

Susceptibility to mastitis is highest during the peripartal (transition) period and often concomitant with other comorbidities such as ketosis. Although infection pathogenic microorganisms immune-dysfunction around calving clearly play key roles in development, metabolic factors also contribute. Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3), a mitochondrial deacetylase regulating energy redox homeostasis, antagonizes lipo...

BACKGROUND NEFA plays numerous roles in the metabolism of glucose, lipids, and proteins. A number of experimental studies have shown that NEFA may have an important role in fatty acid metabolism in the liver, especially in dairy cows that experience negative energy balance (NEB) during early lactation. METHODS In this study, using fluorescent quantitative RT-PCR, ELISA, and primary hepatocyte...

Necdin, a growth suppressor expressed predominantly in postmitotic neurons, interacts with viral oncoproteins and cellular transcription factors E2F1 and p53. In search of other cellular targets of necdin, we screened cDNA libraries from neurally differentiated murine embryonal carcinoma P19 cells and adult rat brain by the yeast two-hybrid assay. We isolated cDNAs encoding partial sequences of...

OBJECTIVE Atherosclerosis is prevalent in diabetic patients, but there is little information on the localization of nonesterified fatty acids (NEFAs) within the plaque and their relationship with inflammation. We sought to characterize the NEFA composition and location in human diabetic atheroma plaques by metabolomic analysis and imaging and to address their relationship with inflammation acti...

Most cows encounter a state of negative energy balance during the periparturient period, which may lead to metabolic disorders and impaired fertility. The aim of this study was to assess the potential of milk fatty acids as diagnostic tools of detrimental levels of blood plasma nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA), defined as NEFA concentrations beyond 0.6 mmol/L, in a data set of 92 early lactatin...

High concentrations of nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA) are a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes in Pima Indians. In vitro and in vivo, chronic elevation of NEFA decreases glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. We hypothesized that high fasting plasma NEFA would increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by inducing a worsening of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in Pima Indians. To test t...

The human protein NEFA (DNA binding, EF-hand, Acidic region) has previously been isolated from a KM3 cell line and immunolocalized on the plasma membrane, in the cytoplasma, and in the culture medium. Sequence analysis of a cDNA clone encoding NEFA identified a hydrophilic domain, two EF-hands, and a leucine zipper at the C-terminus. These characters are shared with nucleobindin (Nuc). In this ...