Title : Mitochondrial carnitine palmitoyltransferase I isoform switching in the developing rat heart.

Pub. Date : 1995 Apr 14

PMID : 7721804






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1 Because the myocardial carnitine content is very low at birth and rises dramatically over the next several weeks, it can be estimated that L-CPT I (Km for carnitine of only 30 microM compared with a value of 500 microM for M-CPT I) is responsible for some 60% of total cardiac fatty acid oxidation in the newborn rat; the value falls to approximately 4% in adult animals. Fatty Acids carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1B Rattus norvegicus