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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The oxidative degradation of saturated fatty acids in which two-carbon units are sequentially removed from the molecule with each turn of the cycle.
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Examples
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Possible dysfunction of mitochondrial beta-oxidation by long chain acylCoA dehydrogenase.
The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009
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Ketone bodies are generated by fatty acid beta-oxidation, a process involving a mitochondrial oxido-reductase superfamily, with fatty acid-CoA thioesters as substrates.
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According to our study, the lipids-lowering effect of dietary SSC may be partly associated with the enhancement of beta-oxidation via PPAR alpha activation.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Xiao-Qian Hu 2010
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To search for a possible mechanism, we examined the changes of key enzymes and transcriptional factors involved in hepatic lipids biosynthesis, fatty acid beta-oxidation.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Xiao-Qian Hu 2010
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Upregulated genes also included genes encoding other enzymes of methanol metabolism as well as of peroxisomal beta-oxidation.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Tim van Zutphen 2010
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These processes may also be responsible for the enhanced peroxisomal beta-oxidation, as autophagy leads to recycling of membrane lipids.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Tim van Zutphen 2010
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