CD36 and B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: As expected, when FA were added to culture the levels of oxygen dissolved in the culture media were markedly reduced whereas the dO2 levels of CLL cells transfected with CD36 siRNA and incubated with oleic acid, remained significantly higher than the dO2 levels in the medium of non-transfected or GPDH-transfected CLL cells (Figure 3A).