Abstract
Excess dietary fatty acids and excess dietary carbohydrate are stored in adipose tissue as triacylglycerols. Insulin is the major hormone that stimulates this process of fat storage. Fatty acids are a prime fuel for humans and lower animals; they can be stored as triacylglycerols in large amounts in fat cells.
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Marinetti, G.V. (1990). Disorders of Fatty Acid Metabolism. In: Disorders of Lipid Metabolism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9564-9_3
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