Supplemental dietary leucine and the skeletal muscle anabolic response to essential amino acids

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 550-557

  Pasiakos, Stefan M ^a   Mcclung, James P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Branched chain amino acid; Intracellular signaling; Leucine; Protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; ANIMALS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; LEUCINE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80052377760     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2011.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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