Synchronous deficits in cumulative muscle protein synthesis and ribosomal biogenesis underlie age-related anabolic resistance to exercise in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 594, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 7399-7417

  Brook, Matthew S ^a   Wilkinson, Daniel J ^a   Mitchell, William K ^a,b   Lund, Jonathan N ^a,b   Phillips, Bethan E ^a   Szewczyk, Nathaniel J ^a   Greenhaff, Paul L ^a   Smith, Kenneth ^a   Atherton, Philip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ageing; exercise; hypertrophy; muscle; protein synthesis; ribosomal biogenesis; signalling; stable isotope

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; MUSCLE PROTEIN; DNA; RNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE THICKNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESISTANCE TRAINING; RIBOSOME; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; HYPERTROPHY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; DNA; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; RIBOSOMES; RNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85001930572     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP272857     Document Type: Article

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