Targeted 13C enrichment of lipid and protein pools in the body reveals circadian changes in oxidative fuel mixture during prolonged fasting: A case study using Japanese quail

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 546-554

  McCue, Marshall D ^a   Amaya, James A ^a   Yang, Alice S ^a   Erhardt, Erik B ^b   Wolf, Blair O ^b   Hanson, David T ^b  

^a ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood metabolites; Body temperature; Breath testing; Ketone bodies; Leucine; Metabolism; Stable isotope; Starvation

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON 13; CARBON DIOXIDE; FUEL; STABLE ISOTOPE; CARBON; KETONE BODY; LEUCINE; PALMITIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATH ANALYSIS; BREATHING; CASE STUDY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX JAPONICA; DIET RESTRICTION; GAS EXCHANGE; LIPID OXIDATION; MACRONUTRIENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; BLOOD METABOLITES; BREATH TESTING; COTURNIX; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STARVATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COTURNIX JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

BLOOD METABOLITES; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATH TESTING; KETONE BODIES; LEUCINE; METABOLISM; STABLE ISOTOPE; STARVATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COTURNIX; FASTING; LEUCINE; LIPID METABOLISM; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PALMITIC ACID;

EID: 84884172925     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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