Leucine supplementation of a chronically restricted protein and energy diet enhances mTOR pathway activation but not muscle protein synthesis in neonatal pigs

Amino Acids

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 257-267

  Manjarín, Rodrigo ^a   Columbus, Daniel A ^a   Suryawan, Agus ^a   Nguyen, Hanh V ^a   Hernandez García, Adriana D ^a   Hoang, Nguyet Minh ^a   Fiorotto, Marta L ^a   Davis, Teresa ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leucine; Muscle; Premature infant; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; INSULIN; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; S6 KINASE; UREA; VALINE; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; MUSCLE PROTEIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PIG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; UPREGULATION; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; FEMALE; INSULIN; LEUCINE; MALE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SWINE; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84955189821     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-015-2078-y     Document Type: Article

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