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Maintaining skeletal muscle mass: lessons learned from hibernation.
Experimental physiology - 1 Apr 2014
Ivakine Evgueni A, Cohn Ronald D
Abstract excerpt
Muscle disuse and starvation are often associated with a catabolic response leading to a dramatic loss of skeletal muscle mass. Hibernating animals represent a unique situation where muscle mass is maintained despite prolonged periods of immobilization and lack of nutrition. We analysed the molecular pathways upregulated during hibernation in an obligate hibernator, the 13-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys...
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