Exercise training reduces skeletal muscle membrane arachidonate in the obese (fa/fa) Zucker rat.

doi:10.1152/jappl.1998.85.5.1898

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Exercise training reduces skeletal muscle membrane arachidonate in the obese (fa/fa) Zucker rat.

Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) - 1 Nov 1998

Ayre K J, Phinney S D, Tang A B, Stern J S

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Compared with the lean (Fa/-) genotype, obese (fa/fa) Zucker rats have a relative deficiency of muscle phospholipid arachidonate, and skeletal muscle arachidonate in humans is positively correlated with insulin sensitivity. To assess the hypothesis that the positive effects of exercise training o...

Topics

Animals
Arachidonic Acid
Blood Glucose
Body Weight
Eating
Fatty Acids
Genotype
Insulin
Male
Muscle, Skeletal
Obesity
Phospholipids
Physical Conditioning, Animal
Rats
Rats, Zucker

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