Amino acid ingestion improves muscle protein synthesis in the young and elderly.

Paddon-Jones, D.; Sheffield-Moore, M.; Zhang, Xiao‐jun; Volpi, E.; Wolf, S.; Aarsland, A.; Ferrando, A.; Wolfe, R.

doi:10.1152/AJPENDO.00368.2003

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Amino acid ingestion improves muscle protein synthesis in the young and elderly

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Authors:

Douglas Paddon-Jones

Melinda Sheffield-Moore

Xiao-Jun Zhang

Abstract

We recently demonstrated that muscle protein synthesis was stimulated to a similar extent in young and elderly subjects during a 3-h amino acid infusion. We sought to determine if a more practical bolus oral ingestion would also produce a similar response in young (34 ± 4 yr) and elderly (67 ± 2 yr)...

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