How do skeletel studies help us to identify gender differences?
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· Glucose Transport and Insulin Signaling Insulin-stimulated glucose uptake appears to be higher in skeletal muscle of women than men, a finding that implies the relevance of studying gender differences in muscle glucose uptake and metabolism.
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Cardiac, smooth, and skeletal are the three muscle types in mammals, with skeletal muscle being the most abundant tissue in the human body. Skeletal muscles are composed of different types of fibers which diverge morphologically, biochemically, and functionally. Early studies describing muscle fiber-type composition and development did not address the potential for differences between species and sex. This is often the case in experimental models where sex is thought to confound results and therefore usually only males are studied.