Amino acid transporters in the regulation of human skeletal muscle protein metabolism

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 638-644

  Dickinson, Jared M ^a   Rasmussen, Blake B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

amino acid sensing and signaling; mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1; protein synthesis; transceptor

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; BIOSENSOR; HUMAN; METABOLIC REGULATION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; AMINO ACIDS; HUMANS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84886422593     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e3283653ec5     Document Type: Review

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