Enteral leucine supplementation increases protein synthesis in skeletal and cardiac muscles and visceral tissues of neonatal pigs through mTORC1-dependent pathways

Pediatric Research

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 324-331

  Suryawan, Agus ^a,b   Torrazza, Roberto Murgas ^a,b   Gazzaneo, Maria C ^a,b   Orellana, Renán A ^a,b   Fiorotto, Marta L ^a,b   El Kadi, Samer W ^a,b   Srivastava, Neeraj ^a,b   Nguyen, Hanh V ^a,b   Davis, Teresa A ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 2; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; PROTEIN KINASE B; S6 KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE; JEJUNUM; KIDNEY; LIVER; MASSETER MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWINE; VISCERA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENTERAL NUTRITION; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4G; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTORS; GLYCOLYSIS; INSULIN; LEUCINE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84857971475     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2011.79     Document Type: Article

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