The clinical relevance and mechanism of skeletal muscle wasting

K Duan, X Gao, D Zhu - Clinical Nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscle wasting occurs in both chronic and acute diseases. Increasing evidence
has shown this debilitating process is associated with short-and long-term outcomes in …

A genomics approach reveals insights into the importance of gene losses for mammalian adaptations

V Sharma, N Hecker, JG Roscito, L Foerster… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Identifying the genomic changes that underlie phenotypic adaptations is a key challenge in
evolutionary biology and genomics. Loss of protein-coding genes is one type of genomic …

Muscle mass and physical recovery in ICU: innovations for targeting of nutrition and exercise

PE Wischmeyer, Z Puthucheary… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
New innovative techniques are demonstrating promise to target recovery from PICS utilizing
a combination of objective LBM and metabolic assessment, targeted nutrition interventions …

Hawkmoths use nectar sugar to reduce oxidative damage from flight

E Levin, G Lopez-Martinez, B Fane, G Davidowitz - Science, 2017 - science.org
Nectar-feeding animals have among the highest recorded metabolic rates. High aerobic
performance is linked to oxidative damage in muscles. Antioxidants in nectar are scarce to …

The carbon isotope ratio of breath is elevated by short-term and long-term added sugar and animal protein intake in a controlled feeding study

DM O'Brien, LS Freedman, P Rivera… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The breath carbon isotope ratio (CIR) was recently identified as a noninvasive
candidate biomarker of short-term added sugars (AS) intake. Objectives This study aimed to …

More than just sugar: allocation of nectar amino acids and fatty acids in a Lepidopteran

E Levin, MD McCue… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ability to allocate resources, even when limited, is essential for survival and fitness. We
examine how nutrients that occur in minute amounts are allocated among reproductive …

Toxicity, Histopathological Alterations and Acetylcholinesterase Inhibition of Illicium verum Essential Oil in Drosophila suzukii

L de Souza, MG Cardoso, IFM Konig, VRF Ferreira… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, studies on the potential use of essential oils (EOs) as pesticides have
enormously increased owing to their remarkable biological activities and health benefits …

Cyclic bouts of extreme bradycardia counteract the high metabolism of frugivorous bats

MT O'Mara, M Wikelski, CC Voigt, A Ter Maat… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Active flight requires the ability to efficiently fuel bursts of costly locomotion while maximizing
energy conservation during non-flying times. We took a multi-faceted approach to estimate …

Water restriction increases oxidation of endogenous amino acids in house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

EJ Rogers, AR Gerson - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Animals can cope with dehydration in a myriad of ways, both behaviorally and
physiologically. The oxidation of protein produces more metabolic water per kilojoule than …

Environmental temperature alters the overall digestive energetics and differentially affects dietary protein and lipid use in a lizard

M Plasman, MD McCue, VH Reynoso… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Processing food (eg ingestion, digestion, assimilation) requires energy referred to as
specific dynamic action (SDA) and is at least partially fuelled by oxidation of the nutrients (eg …