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Skeletal muscles of hibernating black bears show minimal atrophy and phenotype shifting despite prolonged physical inactivity and starvation

Hibernating mammals experience prolonged periods of torpor and starvation during winter for up to 5–7 months. Though physical inactivity and malnutrition generally lead to profound loss of muscle mass and metabolic dysfunction in humans, hibernating bears show limited muscle atrophy and can successf...

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Autores principales: Miyazaki, Mitsunori, Shimozuru, Michito, Tsubota, Toshio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472773/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30998788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215489