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Adipose energy stores, physical work, and the metabolic syndrome: lessons from hummingbirds

Hummingbirds and other nectar-feeding, migratory birds possess unusual adaptive traits that offer important lessons concerning obesity, diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. Hummingbirds consume a high sugar diet and have fasting glucose levels that would be severely hyperglycemic in humans, yet thes...

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Autor principal: Hargrove, James L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16351726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-4-36