The effectiveness of protein, leucine and [beta]-hydroxy-[beta]-methylbutyrate on cell-signaling pathways controlling protein turnover in red and white gastrocnemius muscles of rats
Whey protein supplementation, containing large amount of leucine, has been a traditional intervention to maintain net protein balance in the past decades. It has been recognized that leucine alone is able to stimulate protein synthesis by activating mTOR and its related downstream pathway without af...
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-4209 |