CPT1A and neoplasm: Interestingly, CPT1A/Whd, an important regulator of the beta-oxidation pathway (Strub et al, 2008), was found to be upregulated both at the transcriptional (QRasV12scribRNAi, Fig. 4C) and protein levels (RasV12dlg1RNAi, Fig. 4D) in the muscles of tumour-bearing animals.