Enhancing skeletal muscle growth is crucial for animal agriculture because skeletal muscle
provides meat for human consumption. An increasing body of evidence shows that the level …

Objectives The myoblast cell line, C2C12, has been utilised extensively in vitro as an
examination model in understanding metabolic disease progression. Although it is …

Insulin resistance is currently a major health problem. This may be because of a marked
decrease in daily physical activity during recent decades combined with constant food …

Maternal nutrient restriction (NR) affects fetal development with long‐term consequences on
postnatal health of offspring, including predisposition to obesity and diabetes. Most studies …

Circadian clocks are fundamental physiological regulators of energy homeostasis, but direct
transcriptional targets of the muscle clock machinery are unknown. To understand how the …

Beef cattle are raised for their lean tissue, and excessive fat accumulation accounts for large
amounts of waste. On the other hand, intramuscular fat or marbling is essential for the …

Nutrient fluctuations during the fetal stage affects fetal development, which has long-term
impacts on the production efficiency and quality of meat. During the early development, a …

There exists a widely recognized need to better understand and manage complex “systems
of systems,” ranging from biology, ecology, and medicine to network-centric technologies …

Maternal obesity coupled with Western-style high-energy diets represents a special problem
that can result in poor fetal development, leading to harmful, persistent effects on offspring …

Common obesity is associated with the metabolic syndrome and can be distinguished from
secondary obesity and from rare forms of monogenic and polygenic obesity. The prevalence …