Intake of a ketone ester drink during recovery from exercise promotes mTORC1 signaling but not glycogen resynthesis in human muscle

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  Vandoorne, Tijs ^a   De Smet, Stefan ^a   Ramaekers, Monique ^a   Van Thienen, Ruud ^a   De Bock, Katrien ^a,b   Clarke, Kieran ^c   Hespel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C2C12 myotubes; Exercise recovery; Glycogen; Human; Ketone; MTORC1 signaling; Muscle; Protein

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; INSULIN; KETONE BODY; KETONE DERIVATIVE; KETONE ESTER; LACTIC ACID; LEUCINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; S6 KINASE; S6 KINASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BIOCHEMISTRY; C2C12 CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIETARY INTAKE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXERCISE RECOVERY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOGEN MUSCLE LEVEL; GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MYOTUBE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 85019745599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00310     Document Type: Article

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