L-Arginine stimulates the mTOR signaling pathway and protein synthesis in porcine trophectoderm cells

Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1178-1183

  Kong, Xiangfeng ^a,b   Tan, Bie ^a,b   Yin, Yulong ^a   Gao, Haijun ^b   Li, Xilong ^b   Jaeger, Laurie A ^c   Bazer, Fuller W ^b,c   Wu, Guoyao ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine; Conceptus; Fetus; Placenta; Protein turnover

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; NITRIC OXIDE; S6 KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCEPTUS TROPHECTODERM CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; BLASTOCYST; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ECTODERM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES, 70-KDA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUS SCROFA; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TROPHOBLASTS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 84865100829     PISSN: 09552863     EISSN: 18734847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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