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Weather Update

BCM Family Medicine on Kirby is without electrical power. Patients with appointments on Tuesday at this location will be moved to Baylor Medicine on the McNair Campus:  7200 Cambridge St, 7th floor, Suite 7B. Patients will be contacted. For questions, call 713-798-7700.

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Lipid Metabolism Services

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Content
  • Fat Tolerance Test (FTT), Oral gavage (olive or corn oil).
  • Hepatic TG Secretion (Poloxamer 407 or Triton WR-1339)
  • In vivo lipolysis to check fat breakdown ability from storage fat
  • Triglyceride clearance assay
  • Lipogenesis in vivo.
  • Plasma lipoprotein separation & profiling by HPLC; VLDL, HDL, LDL peak analysis
  • In vivo flux analysis of fatty acids using stable isotopic tracers
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