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Ag News
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Animal Research Minute - What makes our muscles perform? | | | Program 7887 (download mp3)
Posted on Mon, Apr 30, 2012 |
Well, new research from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute says muscle performance and
fitness are determined by how well your muscle cells use sugar as a fuel source. Exercising improves the
muscle's ability to take up sugar and burn it for energy. Inactivity reduces the muscle's capacity to burn
sugar. By studying mice, researchers found a mechanism that re-programs metabolic genes in muscles
so they can burn sugar better and improve performance. This finding could lead to new treatments for
obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
Read more: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/smri-sam112811.php
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