Skeletal muscle gain: How much can be achieved by protein and amino acid administration?

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-33

  Roth, Erich ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHEY PROTEIN;

DIET; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MUSCLE GROWTH; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; AGING; AMINO ACIDS; DIETARY PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

EID: 37349077932     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 15353885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e3282f2cc9d     Document Type: Editorial

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