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Supplementing healthy rats with a high-niacin dose has no effect on muscle fiber distribution and muscle metabolic phenotype.
European journal of nutrition - 1 Aug 2014
Scholz Kristen, Kynast Anna Marie, Couturier Aline, Mooren Frank-Christoph, Krüger Karsten, Most Erika, Eder Klaus, Ringseis Robert
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PURPOSE: It was recently shown that niacin prevents the obesity-induced type I to type II fiber switching in skeletal muscle of obese rats and favors the development of a more oxidative metabolic phenotype and thereby increases whole body utilization of fatty acids. Whether niacin also causes type II to type I fiber switching in skeletal muscle of healthy rats has not been investigated yet. Thus, the present...
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