Impact of prolonged leucine supplementation on protein synthesis and lean growth in neonatal pigs

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 309, Issue 6, 2015, Pages E601-E610

  Columbus, Daniel A ^a   Steinhoff Wagner, Julia ^a   Suryawan, Agus ^a   Nguyen, Hanh V ^a   Hernandez Garcia, Adriana ^a   Fiorotto, Marta L ^a   Davis, Teresa A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammalian target of rapamycin; Muscle; Newborn; Protein degradation; Protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; KIDNEY; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LONGISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MILK; MUSCLE; MUSCLE GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; WHEY; ANIMAL; CALORIC INTAKE; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RANDOMIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENERGY INTAKE; HEART; KIDNEY; LEUCINE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUS SCROFA; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84941729701     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00089.2015     Document Type: Article

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