The grey mouse lemur uses season-dependent fat or protein sparing strategies to face chronic food restriction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Giroud, Sylvain ^a,b   Perret, Martine ^b   Stein, Peter ^c   Goudable, Joëlle ^d   Aujard, Fabienne ^b   Gilbert, Caroline ^a,e   Robin, Jean Patrice ^a   Maho, Yvon Le ^a   Zahariev, Alexandre ^a   Blanc, Stéphane ^a   Momken, Iman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY METABOLISM; MOUSE; NITROGEN BALANCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CHEIROGALEIDAE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATS; MALE; PROTEINS; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS MURINUS;

EID: 77952530911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008823     Document Type: Article

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