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Polar bears experience skeletal muscle atrophy in response to food deprivation and reduced activity in winter and summer

When reducing activity and using stored energy during seasonal food shortages, animals risk degradation of skeletal muscles, although some species avoid or minimize the resulting atrophy while experiencing these conditions during hibernation. Polar bears may be food deprived and relatively inactive...

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Autores principales: Whiteman, John P., Harlow, Henry J., Durner, George M., Regehr, Eric V., Rourke, Bryan C., Robles, Manuel, Amstrup, Steven C., Ben-David, Merav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5550809/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28835844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cox049