PapersPMID:23343676
Addition of carbohydrate or alanine to an essential amino acid mixture does not enhance human skeletal muscle protein anabolism.
No finding here moved its endpoint.
What did not
1 findingHow to read these marks →“Although responses were more robust in the EAA+CHO group and prolonged in the EAA+ALA group, AUCs were similar among all groups for fractional synthetic rate, MPS, MPB, and NB.”
- Study
- RCT
- Dose studied
- 30 g alanine added to 10 g EAA, single ingestion
- Population
- Healthy young men and women; every arm ingested 10 g essential amino acids (EAA), alanine added in one arm; two-hour-plus AUC comparison across arms, abstract only
Study record
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- Young men and women ingesting 10 g essential amino acids alone, with sucrose, or with alanine
- Participants
- 21
- Comparator
- an active treatment / no treatment
- Duration
- not reported
- Endpoints measured
- 8