Activation of mTORC1 signaling and protein synthesis in human muscle following blood flow restriction exercise is inhibited by rapamycin

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 306, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Gundermann, David M ^a   Walker, Dillon K ^a   Reidy, Paul T ^a   Borack, Michael S ^a   Dickinson, Jared M ^a   Volpi, Elena ^a   Rasmussen, Blake B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow restriction exercise; Fractional synthetic rate; Mammalian target of rapamycin; Mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1; Rapamycin

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MUSCLE PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; SERINE; THREONINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION EXERCISE; FRACTIONAL SYNTHETIC RATE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; RAPAMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONSTRICTION; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900561233     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00600.2013     Document Type: Article

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