Effects on diet-induced autophagy in metazoa

• Main Author: Fun, Xiu Hui
• Other Authors: Rachel Susan Kraut
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Molecular biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63807
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions worldwide in industrialized developing countries. High fat diet can induce autophagy initiation but prevent autophagosome maturation, leading to overt obesity and cardiac hypertrophy (Zhang et al., 2013). This study aims to determine the effects of high fat a...