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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Liver Dis. 2016 Feb 18;20(2):245–262. doi: 10.1016/j.cld.2015.10.007

Figure 1. Relationship of Vmax for LCFA uptake by isolated human omental adipocytes to patient BMI.

Figure 1

Cells were isolated from intra-operative fat biopsies obtained during clinically indicated abdominal surgical procedures in 10 non-obese patients, and during bariatric surgeries in 10 obese and 7 super-obese patients who were participants in a 2-stage bariatric surgical protocol (77). Vmax increases as an exponential function of BMI.