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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Ther. 2017 Jul 16;181:108–125. doi: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2017.07.007

Figure 3. Dietary factors and pathways leading to fat storage.

Figure 3

The diagram illustrates how dietary carbohydrate and fat is assimilated into complex lipids. Lipids are assimilated into membrane lipids or stored in lipid droplets. The diagram does not illustrate the impact of fatty acid oxidation or TAG export as VLDL.