Turning fat into muscle

Turning on Brown Fat and Muscle Metabolism: Hedging Your Bets

Developmental genes are essential in the formation and function of adipose tissue and muscle. In this issue of Cell, Teperino et al. demonstrate that noncanonical hedgehog signaling increases glucose uptake into brown fat and muscle. Modulation of developmental pathways may serve as a potential target for new treatments of diabetes and other metabolic disorders.

Reference Gene Selection in Adipose and Muscle Tissues of Fat-tailed Lori-Bakhtiari Lambs

BACKGROUND: Fat-tailed sheep breeds have a  unique  ability  to  tolerate  periods  of  negative  energy  balance  due to seasonal changes in feed availability. This ability is attributed to presence  of  fat-tail  as  a  body  energy  reserve, however the exact underlying  mechanisms  controlling  the  response  of adipose  tissue  depots  to variations in energy balance in fat-tailed breeds a...

The Association of Food Intake and Physical Activity with Body Composition, Muscle Strength and Muscle Function in Postmenopausal Women

Background and Objectives: Sarcopenia is explained as age-related reduction in muscle mass and performance. Some of the most important risk factors for sarcopenia include age, malnutrition, and sedentary life style. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of food intake and physical activity with body composition, muscle strength and muscle function in post-menopausal women. ...

Whole body and tissue cholesterol turnover in the baboon.

Cholesterol turnover was studied in four baboons by injecting [14C]cholesterol 186 days and [3H]cholesterol 4 days before necropsy, and fitting a two- or three-pool model to the resulting specific activity-time data. At necropsy, cholesterol mass and specific activity were determined for the total body (minus the central nervous system) and for many tissues. A pool model permits the estimation,...

Comparing the 6 weeks of high-intensity interval and continuous training with standard diet on desnutrin and FNDC5 genes expression after a period of high fat diet in subcutaneous adipose tissue and the quadriceps muscle tissue of obese male rats

Introdution: Obesity is a systemic disorder that disruption the regulation of the effective proteins; in fat metabolism (Desnurtin, FNDC5 it leads to resistance to insulin and Diabetes.  The aim of this study was comparing the 6 weeks of high-intensity interval and continuous training with standard diet on desnutrin and FNDC5 genes expression in subcutaneous adipose tissue and the quadrice...

Short communication:The comparison of fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins and cholesterol in the muscle of wild caught, cage and pond reared rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss W., 1792)