Metabolic and molecular responses to leucine-enriched branched chain amino acid supplementation in the skeletal muscle of alcoholic cirrhosis

Hepatology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2018-2029

  Tsien, Cynthia ^a   Davuluri, Gangarao ^b   Singh, Dharmvir ^b   Allawy, Allawy ^b   Ten Have, Gabriella A M ^c   Thapaliya, Samjhana ^b   Schulze, John M ^d   Barnes, David ^b   McCullough, Arthur J ^b   Engelen, Marielle P K J ^c   Deutz, Nicolaas E P ^c   Dasarathy, Srinivasan ^b  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN 5; BECLIN 1; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; MUSCLE RING FINGER 1 PROTEIN; MYOSTATIN; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN P62; S6 KINASE; TYROSINE; VALINE; MTOR PROTEIN, HUMAN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOLISM; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSAL POTENTIAL; SARCOPENIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; UBIQUITINATION; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; AUTOPHAGY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUCINE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHENYLALANINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEOLYSIS; SARCOPENIA; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84929366086     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.27717     Document Type: Article

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