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Reproductive performance of sows supplemented with dietary L-carnitine over three reproductive cycles

(PubMed) Iyer RN, Khan AA, Gupta A, Vajifdar BU, Lokhandwala YY

CPT1 activity is based on adequate muscle levels of carnitine, which progressively declines with increased production of acetylcarnitines as exercise intensity and/or duration increases

[13] The first reaction of the carnitine shuttle is a two-step process catalyzed by a family of isozymes of acyl-CoA synthetase that are found in the outer mitochondrial membrane , where they promote the activation of fatty acids by forming a thioester bond between the fatty acid carboxyl group and the thiol group of coenzyme A to yield a fatty acylCoA