Lessons from "lower" organisms: what worms, flies, and zebrafish can teach us about human energy metabolism.

A pandemic of metabolic diseases (atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, and obesity), unleashed by multiple social and economic factors beyond the control of most individuals, threatens to diminish human life span for the first time in the modern era. Given the redundancy and inherent complexity of pr...

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Main Authors: Amnon Schlegel, Didier Y R Stainier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-11-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2098794?pdf=render