The effect of muscle phospholipid fatty acid composition on exercise performance: A direct test in the migratory white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Price, Edwin R ^a   Guglielmo, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adipose; Membrane; Natural doping; Omega 3; Omega 6; Polyunsaturated fatty acids

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID TRANSPORTER; MESSENGER RNA; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; FAT INTAKE; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID DIET; MUSCLE LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPARROW;

3-HYDROXYACYL COA DEHYDROGENASES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; CELL MEMBRANE; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPARROWS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 69249148276     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00150.2009     Document Type: Article

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