Introduction: The skeletal muscle is important for the body because it is responsible for locomotion, posture maintenance, organ protection and for being a source of energetic substrates. Losses in this tissue involving ...

Introduction: Paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) in rats is able to induce reductions in body mass and body fat, due to increased secretion of pituitary-adrenal axis hormones. Considering that PSD is also associated with ...