Drugs turn 'couch potato' mice into long-distance runners

Nature News ^ | 31 July 2008 | Erika Check Hayden

[neverdem]

AMPK and PPARδ Agonists Are Exercise Mimetics

[ETL]

[weegee]

Just when someone builds a better mousetrap someone else dopes up faster mice.

[wastedyears]

I’d volunteer for human experimentation.

[DakotaRed]

Didn’t we have something similar to this years ago? Seems it was called “Speed.”

[wastedyears]

I don’t think ‘Speed’ is legal.

[Beowulf9]

But where in the world is the need for long distance running mice?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This study, it should be noted, was performed on a series of 10 vermincycles aka “rodent wheels” constructed out of passivated high-strength aircraft aluminum alloy machined to tolerances of +/- .0001 mm at a cost of $837,300.

[eclecticEel]

Title: Drugs turn 'couch potato' mice into long-distance runners

Yeah, speed will do that to you.

[Kevmo]

bmflr

[DakotaRed]

‘Speed’ isn’t legal, My comment, though, was more tongue in cheek. Users of it I knew back in the day couldn’t sit still didn’t eat. If I recall correctly, a weaker version of it was in several diet pills for a while.

[neverdem]

Didn’t we have something similar to this years ago? Seems it was called “Speed.”

"For instance, the diabetes drug metformin activates the same enzyme activated by AICAR."

Amphetamines couldn't be more different than metformin, IMHO.

[neverdem]

I don’t think ‘Speed’ is legal.

Some amphetamines are prescription drugs.

[MHGinTN]

To exercise the overweight pet cats.

[Enchante]

"But where in the world is the need for long distance running mice?"

Gotta get all those chubby cats into shape chasing the long-distance running mice!

[Enchante]

Ah, you beat me - I didn’t read down the thread before I posted......

[MHGinTN]

Love your tagline!

[Enchante]

thanks, it’s a work in progress!

[wastedyears]

Isn’t that the lower dosage stuff to get you off the hard stuff?

[wastedyears]

Something like this is what I need to whip me back into shape.