The effect
on skeletal muscle growth is one of the main reasons for the massive interest for epicatechin in recent years.
Not exact matches
Recently,
skeletal muscle has been recognized as an endocrine tissue with the capacity to secrete cytokines and
growth factors, known as myokines, which can act
on distant tissues.
Increased Leucine levels signal to mTOR that there is enough dietary protein to synthesize new
skeletal muscle protein, so mTOR «turns
on»
muscle growth.
Influence of dietary protein, energy and corticosteroids
on protein turnover, proteoglycan sulphation and
growth of long bone and
skeletal muscle in the rat.