Abstract:The ability of the muscular carnitine pool to accept and temporally donate acetyl groups (from and towards the coenzyme A pool) is an important functional role of carnitine within biological systems that is often overlooked within the scientific literature. The present review will discuss recent research demonstrating the existence of a period of inadequate acetyl-CoA delivery towards the tricarboxylic acid cycle (the so-called 'acetyl group deficit'), which occurs as a consequence of the impaired integration … Show more
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