“…3). In this population, the excess IMTG accretion is attributed to the elevated plasma FFA availability and FA uptake [45,65,75,85], the subsequent FFA-induced inhibition of IMTG utilisation [99,100] and/or a reduced capacity to oxidize FA [4,5,41]. The structural imbalance between FFA uptake, TG storage and FA oxidation leads to a progressive intramyocellular accumulation of both TG and FA metabolites (such as fatty acyl-CoA, ceramides and diacylglycerol), of which the latter have been shown to induce defects in the insulin signalling cascade [1,6,16,18,36,45,77,85,105].…”