Affiliation:
1. Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Dundee, UnitedKingdom.
Abstract
To investigate why flooding methods give higher rates than constant-infusion methods for muscle protein synthesis, we studied seven healthy postabsorptive male volunteers (20-42 yr; 67-74 kg) during a 7.5-h primed constant infusion of L-[1-13C]valine (99 atoms %, 1.5 mg/kg prime, 1.5 mg.kg-1.h-1); at 6.5 h they were given a flood of L-[1-13C]leucine (20 atoms %, 0.05 g/kg). Musculus tibialis anterior biopsies were taken at 0.5, 6, and 7.5 h, and blood was sampled as appropriate. The enrichment of valine and leucine in muscle protein (isotope ratio mass spectrometry of protein amino acid-derived 13CO2) was compared with the average enrichment of various amino acid pools (gas chromatography-mass spectrometry). During infusion of [13C] valine the rate of muscle protein synthesis measured using alpha-ketoisovalerate (alpha-KIV) as precursor surrogate was 0.043 +/- 0.002%/h (SE). After flooding with leucine, the incorporation rate of [13C]valine increased by 70% (P less than 0.05), i.e., apparent muscle protein synthetic rate (based on alpha-[13C]KIV) increased to 0.065 +/- 0.009%/h (P less than 0.05); the rate calculated from the [13C]leucine flood was 0.060 +/- 0.005%/h (P less than 0.01). The synthetic rates calculated using the constant-infusion method were higher after flooding, irrespective of the precursor chosen, raising serious concern about the validity of the flooding-dose method.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
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