The carnitine status does not affect the contractile and metabolic phenotype of skeletal muscle in pigs

Abstract Background Recently, supplementation of L-carnitine to obese rats was found to improve the carnitine status and to counteract an obesity-induced muscle fiber transition from type I to type II. However, it has not been resolved if the change of muscle fiber distribution induced in obese rats...

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Main Authors: Daniel Kaup, Janine Keller, Erika Most, Joachim Geyer, Klaus Eder, Robert Ringseis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:Nutrition & Metabolism
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12986-017-0238-7