Gender differences in skeletal muscle substrate metabolism - molecular mechanisms and insulin sensitivity

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Lundsgaard, Anne Marie ^a   Kiens, Bente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Exercise; Fatty acid oxidation; Glucose uptake; Intramyocellular triacylglycerol; Metabolic flexibility; Substrate metabolism

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADIPOCYTOKINE; ADIPONECTIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; LEPTIN; LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID METABOLISM; MENOPAUSE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 84920125385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2014.00195     Document Type: Review

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