An increasing body of literature links immune and inflammatory factors to modulation of growth and control of fat:lean body composition. Recent progress in understanding the control of body composition has been made through identification of inflammatory cytokines and other factors produced by adipose tissue that affect body composition, often by direct effects on skeletal muscle tissue. Adipos...

The process of the colonization of the New World that occurred centuries ago served as a natural experiment, creating unique combinations of genetic material in newly formed admixed populations. Through a genetic admixture approach, the identification and genotyping of ancestry informative markers have allowed for the estimation of proportions of ancestral parental populations among individuals...

BAGBY, GREGORY J., WALTER L. SEMBROWICH, AND PHILIP D. GOLLNICK. Myosin A TPase and fiber composition from trained and untrained rat skeletal muscle. Am. J. Physiol. 223(6): 1415-1417. 1972.-Myosin ATPase and fiber composition were determined in the gastrocnemius muscle of sedentary, endurance-trained, and sprint-trained rats. The endurance training was running in motordriven wheels 60 min/day ...

There is a large body of evidence that n-3 fatty acids, especially EPA and DHA are beneficial for human health. Content of these fatty acids in fish fillet can be influenced by several factors. This thesis examined differences in lipid content, lipid class and fatty acid composition among three parts of common carp fillets. The effect of genetic background on lipid content and fatty acid compos...

Training improves insulin sensitivity, which in turn may affect performance by modulation of fuel availability. Insulin action, in turn, has been linked to specific patterns of muscle structural lipids in skeletal muscle. This study investigated whether regular exercise training exerts an effect on the muscle membrane phospholipid fatty acid composition in humans. Seven male subjects performed ...