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An investigation of the inflammatory resolution properties of Resolvin E1 in skeletal muscle cells

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posted on 2019-05-03, 15:28 authored by Luke A. Baker
A variety of metabolic disease states as well as the ageing process are characterised with a state of low-gradechronic inflammation, which may contribute to skeletal muscle wasting. Since muscle wasting is associated with increases in morbidity and all-cause mortality, targeting of skeletal muscle inflammation may prove a useful therapeutic tool to enable the preservation of skeletal muscle mass in disease states categorised by chronic low-grade inflammation. One potential avenue for intervention is via nutritional intervention, omega-3fatty acids have been implicated to have anti-inflammatory properties mediated via a variety of mechanisms. One such mechanism is through a group of bioactive lipid mediators produced in inflammatory states via the metabolism of both eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which aretermed specialised pro-resolving mediators (SPM’s). [Continues.]

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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Loughborough University

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© Luke Baker

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2019

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

Supervisor(s)

Mark Lewis ; Martin Lindley ; Neil Martin

Qualification name

  • PhD

Qualification level

  • Doctoral

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