Journal article
Sex Differences in Global mRNA Content of Human Skeletal Muscle
Abstract
Women oxidize more fat as compared to men during endurance exercise and several groups have shown that the mRNA content of selected genes related to fat oxidation are higher in women (e.g. hormone sensitive lipase, beta-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, CD36). One of the possible mechanisms is that women tend to have a higher area percentage of type I skeletal muscle fibers as compared with men. Consequently, we hypothesized that sex would …
Authors
Maher AC; Fu MH; Isfort RJ; Varbanov AR; Qu XA; Tarnopolsky MA
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 4, No. 7,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0006335
ISSN
1932-6203