Metabolism is the process by which your body turns food into energy through chemical reactions in your cells. Your metabolic rate is a measurement of how many calories (units of energy) your body ...

In their study published in the journal Biology Letters, Giulia Rossi and Kenneth Welch coaxed vampire bats in their lab to run on a treadmill as a way to measure their metabolism. Prior research ...

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. The common vampire ...

The study provides valuable insights for scientists who study metabolism, obesity, and adipose tissue biology. Meanwhile, the experimental evidence supporting the claim is incomplete, and more ...

During the administration of small doses of dexamethasone (0.5 mg ... osteoporosis or disturbance of carbohydrate metabolism. Evidences of androgen excess were prominent and included hirsutism ...

Comparing 3-month-old wild-type and MuRF1-KO mice, we measured tissue weights, liver glycogen, lipid and protein content, and liver biochemical composition using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) ...

Similarly, associations of the modules with mortality were measured by hazard ratio (HR) per increase 1 unit of PC1 using Cox regression model adjusted for age, HIV status and dexamethasone treatment ...

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