Leucine-enriched essential amino acid supplementation during moderate steady state exercise enhances postexercise muscle protein synthesis

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 809-818

  Pasiakos, Stefan M ^a   McClung, Holly L ^a   McClung, James P ^a   Margolis, Lee M ^a   Andersen, Nancy E ^a   Cloutier, Gregory J ^b   Pikosky, Matthew A ^a   Rood, Jennifer C ^c   Fielding, Roger A ^b   Young, Andrew J ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 2; HISTIDINE; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; METHIONINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN S6; THREONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BODY FAT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE RECOVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE;

ADULT; BICYCLING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOTOPES; LEUCINE; MALE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAINING AND LABELING; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80052002175     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.111.017061     Document Type: Article

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