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Altered tricarboxylic acid cycle flux in primary myotubes from severely obese humans.

Kai ZouJ Matthew HinkleySanghee ParkDonghai ZhengTerry E JonesWalter J PoriesPamela J HornbyJames LenhardG Lynis DohmJoseph A Houmard
Published in: International journal of obesity (2005) (2018)
These data suggest that with severe obesity the partitioning of glucose toward anaerobic glycolysis in response to insulin is a resilient characteristic of human skeletal muscle. This altered glucose partitioning appeared to be due, at least in part, to a reduction in TCA cycle flux.
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