Head to head comparison of short-term treatment with the NAD+ precursor nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) and six weeks of exercise in obese female mice

• Main Authors: Golam Mezbah Uddin (Author), Neil A Youngson (Author), David A Sinclair (Author), Margaret J Morris (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Obesity is well known to be a major cause of several chronic metabolic diseases, which can be partially counteracted by exercise. This is due, in part, to an upregulation of mitochondrial activity through increased nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). Recent studies have shown that NAD+ levels...