Sentences with phrase «greater oxidative capacity»

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Traveling bees also have greater oxidative stress levels — which ages them more quickly and may lessen their capacity to fight off disease and parasites.

Our data demonstrate that loss of IL - 15Rα results in a remodeling of fast skeletal muscles to a more oxidative phenotype that manifests as a greater exercise capacity and resistance to fatigue in mice due, in part, to adaptations in mitochondria — phenotypes that were only observed in IL - 15Rα — KO mice.

Hypertrophy of type I muscle fibers, such as that seen in the present study, is important given that these fibers are more insulin sensitive [33]; they contain a greater oxidative and mitochondria capacity, and higher capillary density [32].