Effects of chronic spinal cord injury on body weight and body composition in rats fed a standard chow diet

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Primeaux, Stefany D ^a   Tong, Melissa ^a   Holmes, Gregory M ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Fat mass; Lean body mass; Metabolic syndrome; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOPHAGIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIPID COMPOSITION; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; INSULIN; ION CHANNELS; LEPTIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 34548418464     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00224.2007     Document Type: Article

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