How wasting is saving: Weight loss at altitude might result from an evolutionary adaptation

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 721-729

  Murray, Andrew J ^a   Montgomery, Hugh E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Catabolism; Hypoxia; Ketones; Metabolism; Muscle

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SENSITIVE POTASSIUM CHANNEL; AMINO ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR; KETONE BODY; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TAURINE;

ALTITUDE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CACHEXIA; CALORIC INTAKE; CELL PROTECTION; DIET RESTRICTION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; KIDNEY TUBULE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STARVATION; SYNTHESIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; CELL HYPOXIA; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL HYPOXIA; ENERGY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; KETONE BODIES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84904042916     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201400042     Document Type: Article

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