An amino acid mixture improves glucose tolerance and insulin signaling in sprague-dawley rats

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 300, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 752-760

  Bernard, Jeffrey R ^a   Liao, Yi Hung ^a   Hara, Daisuke ^a   Ding, Zhenping ^a   Chen, Chung Yu ^a   Nelson, Jeffrey L ^b   Ivy, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt substrate of 160 kDa; Isoleucine; Leucine; Mammalian target of rapamycin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID MIXTURE; CARBON 14; DEOXYGLUCOSE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; INSULIN; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MANNITOL; PROTEIN KINASE B; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAST MUSCLE; FEEDING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; INSULIN RESPONSE; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLOW MUSCLE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; INSULIN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79955165505     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00643.2010.     Document Type: Article

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