Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 441-448 , April 2010

Soybean diet alters the insulin-signaling pathway in the liver of rats recovering from early-life malnutrition

  • Naoel H. Feres, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Alimentos e Nutrição, Faculdade de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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  • Sílvia R. de Lima Reis, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Alimentos e Nutrição, Faculdade de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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  • Roberto V. Veloso, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Alimentos e Nutrição, Faculdade de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
    • ,
  • Vanessa C. Arantes, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Alimentos e Nutrição, Faculdade de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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  • Letícia M.I. Souza, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • Postgraduate Program in Bioscience, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
    • ,
  • Everardo Magalhães Carneiro, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Fisiologia e Biofísica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paolo, Brazil
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  • Antonio Carlos Boschero, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Fisiologia e Biofísica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paolo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Marise A.B. Reis, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ciências Básicas em Saúde, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
    • ,
  • Márcia Q. Latorraca, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Alimentos e Nutrição, Faculdade de Nutrição, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55-65-3615-8816; fax: +55-65-3615-8811.

Received 8 January 2009 ,Accepted 15 June 2009.

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 This work is part of a dissertation presented by N. H. Feres as partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master's Degree in Health Sciences at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso.

 This work was partly supported by the Brazilian foundations FAPEMAT (grant 175/04), CNPq (grant 479138/2003-6), and FINEP/PRONEX (grant 134/97).

PII: S0899-9007(09)00283-4

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.06.016

Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 441-448 , April 2010

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