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The Lou/C rat is presented both as an obesity-resistant rat with a low fat accumulation and as a model of healthy ageing. To characterise the mechanisms underlying...

Heavy chronic alcohol consumption has deleterious effects on bone tissue. It is one of the major causes of secondary osteoporosis in men. In this work, we draw several...

The brain-gut axis refers to the bidirectional interaction between the gut and the brain. Although leptin, a hormone released from fat tissue, is involved in the...

Maternal obesity is associated with a wide spectrum of delivery disorders, such as delayed or post-term delivery, that might be explained partly by the increase in...

Transgenic mice offers powerful tools to study integrative physiology especially to study a specific gene function in a whole organism. Using transgenic mice revealed...

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