Physiological rise in plasma leucine stimulates muscle protein synthesis in neonatal pigs by enhancing translation initiation factor activation

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 288, Issue 5 51-5, 2005, Pages

  Escobar, Jeffery ^a   Frank, Jason W ^a   Suryawan, Agus ^a   Nguyen, Hanh V ^a   Kimball, Scot R ^b   Jefferson, Leonard S ^b   Davis, Teresa A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Eukaryotic initiation factor 4E; Liver; Nutrition; Ribosomal protein S6 kinase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; LEUCINE; MUSCLE PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; S6 KINASE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN DEPENDENCE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSLATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWINE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; LEUCINE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWINE;

EID: 17444390819     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00510.2004     Document Type: Article

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