Ursolic acid stimulates mTORC1 signaling after resistance exercise in rat skeletal muscle

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 305, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Ogasawara, Riki ^a   Sato, Koji ^a   Higashida, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakazato, Koichi ^b   Fujita, Satoshi ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON SPORT SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exercise; Intracellular signaling; Muscle hypertrophy; Nutrition; Supplement

Indexed keywords

CORN OIL; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; URSOLIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE RECOVERY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; RESISTANCE TRAINING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EXERCISE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; NUTRITION; SUPPLEMENT;

ANIMALS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRITERPENES;

EID: 84884377447     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00302.2013     Document Type: Article

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