Effect of exercise on glutamine synthesis and transport in skeletal muscle from rats

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 770-775

  Dos Santos, Ronaldo V T ^a,b   Caperuto, Érico C ^b   De Mello, Marco T ^a   Batista Jr , Miguel L ^b   Rosa, Luis F B P C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aerobic exercise; Glutamine synthetase; Glutamine transport; Moderate exercise; Soleus

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INSULIN;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EXERCISE; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INSULIN; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 68549094450     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2009.05146.x     Document Type: Article

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