Leucine-supplemented meal feeding for ten days beneficially affects postprandial muscle protein synthesis in old rats

From: The Journal of Nutrition | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT Acute leucine supplementation of the diet has been shown to blunt defects in postprandial muscle protein metabolism in old rats. This study was undertaken to determine whether the effect of leucine persists in a 10-d experiment. For this purpose, adult (9 mo) and old (21 mo) rats were fed a semiliquid 18.2 g/100 g protein standard diet during the 8-h dark period for 1 mo. Then, each group was given either a leucine-supplemented meal or an alanine-supplemented meal (as the control meal) for 1 h and the standard diet the rest of the feeding period. On d 10, rats were fed either no food ...

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