Nutrition
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 267-276 , March 2007

Postprandial leucine deficiency failed to alter muscle protein synthesis in growing and adult rats

Received 14 June 2006 ,Accepted 19 December 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2006.12.003

Nutrition
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 267-276 , March 2007

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