Female Mice Have a Unique Metabolic Mechanism to Adapt to Fasting (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Female Mice Have a Unique Metabolic Mechanism to Adapt to Fasting (1 of 1)

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Fluorescent images of gastrocnemius muscle sections from fasted female mice deficient in BDNF (right) and fasted controls (left). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 13, 2019, issue of Science Signaling, published by AAAS. The paper, by X. Yang at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, OK; and colleagues was titled, "Muscle-generated BDNF is a sexually dimorphic myokine that controls metabolic flexibility."

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X. Yang <i>et al., Science Signaling</i> (2019)

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