What is the Optimal Amount of Protein to Support Post-Exercise Skeletal Muscle Reconditioning in the Older Adult?

Sports Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1205-1212

  Churchward Venne, Tyler A ^a   Holwerda, Andrew M ^a   Phillips, Stuart M ^b   van Loon, Luc J C ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN INTAKE;

ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADULT; AGE; BIOSYNTHESIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTAKE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DIETARY PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING;

EID: 84973133653     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-016-0504-2     Document Type: Letter

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