A putative low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet elicits mild nutritional ketosis but does not impair the acute or chronic hypertrophic responses to resistance exercise in rodents

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1173-1185

  Roberts, Michael D ^a,b   Maleah Holland, A ^a   Kephart, Wesley C ^a   Brooks Mobley, C ^a   Mumford, Petey W ^a   Lowery, Ryan P ^c   Fox, Carlton D ^a   McCloskey, Anna E ^a   Shake, Joshua J ^a   Mesquita, Paulo ^a   Patel, Romil K ^a   Martin, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Young, Kaelin C ^a,b   Kavazis, Andreas N ^a,b   Wilson, Jacob M ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDWARD VIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Applied Science and Performance Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPK; Low Carbohydrate Diets; Muscle Hypertrophy; Muscle Protein Synthesis

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; INSULIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLOOD; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HINDLIMB; HYPERTROPHY; KETOACIDOSIS; KETOGENIC DIET; LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RAT; RESISTANCE TRAINING; RODENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIET, CARBOHYDRATE-RESTRICTED; DIET, KETOGENIC; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; HINDLIMB; HYPERTROPHY; INSULIN; KETOSIS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESISTANCE TRAINING; RODENTIA;

EID: 84983685039     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00837.2015     Document Type: Article

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