Research reveals why we lose fat, muscle during infection
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Two Types of T Cells Implicated in Fat and Muscle Wasting during Infection
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Researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, California, US, found that while the muscle loss helped the mice fight and survive the infection, the fat loss had no impact on the mice s ability to fight or survive the infection.
Fat and muscle loss, a process called wasting, were brought about by different groups of immune cells, researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, California, US, found.