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Introduction Skeletal muscle is a tissue mainly composed of muscle fibers, which form multinucleated contractile cells. It accounts for approximately 30% of women's body weight and 40% of men's body weight and is essential for locomotion
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early morning after an 8-h fast. The urinary glucose levels were examined along with the urinary volume of the day and calculated as the excreted amount per day. The amounts of skeletal muscle and body fat and their distributions were analyzed before and
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Introduction Excess dietary fat and sedentary lifestyle predispose to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. As skeletal muscle accounts for 80% of glucose disposal under insulin-stimulated conditions ( 1 , 2 ), it is an important target
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Pompe disease, morbidity and mortality are mainly caused by progressive skeletal muscle weakness and wasting ( 2 ). Even though treatment with recombinant acid alpha-glucosidase improves walking distance and lung function, and slows down disease
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level there is also evidence of VDR expression and direct effects of vitamin D on human skeletal muscle precursor cells ( 7 ), which provides a rationale for a direct role of vitamin D in muscle function. Furthermore, mice lacking VDR show an abnormal
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, which enables these to diffuse non-selectively into non-hepatic tissues such as skeletal muscle ( 11 ). This idea is supported by the PRIMO-study, which showed hydrophilic statins, such as pravastatin, causing less myalgia, whereas highly lipophilic
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/obese subjects is associated with glucose regulation ( 5 ). Furthermore, we found that the presence of fat within the liver was an independent risk factor for impaired glucose regulation (IGR) ( 5 ). Other than fat, skeletal muscle also plays a key role in
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synthesized normally in the body and must be obtained through exogenous pathways ( 1 ) and which act on metabolic signalling pathways in direct and indirect ways. BCAA is mainly metabolized in skeletal muscle, accounting for approximately 35% of the essential
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-IUGR, characterized by nutrition insults in early life. However, currently, the role of LRP6-mediated Wnt signaling in the insulin resistance of CG-IUGR is unknown. Under normal circumstances, skeletal muscle is one of the most critical organs for maintaining
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into a new type of adipocytes, beige adipocytes ( 2 , 3 ), which have a similar thermogenic function to that of BAT. Increased thermogenesis in skeletal muscle caused by exercise is related to peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma co