title: Rate of protein synthesis in skeletal muscle of normal man and patients with muscular dystrophy: a reassessment.
abstract: 1. Quadriceps muscle protein synthetic rate has been determined in healthy subjects in the post-absorptive (n = 18) and fed (n = 10) states and in patients with a variety of myopathies, by analysis of the enrichment of serial muscle biopsies taken during primed continuous infusion of L-[1-13C]leucine. 2. Quadriceps protein synthetic rates in normal subjects were (mean +/- SD) 0.046 +/- 0.012 and 0.075 +/- 0.014%/h in the post-absorptive and fed states respectively. These results are significantly lower than we previously reported (M. J. Rennie et al., Clinical Science, 1982, 63, 519-523 [1]) but show the same relative differences of direction and magnitude, confirming the effects of feeding previously reported. In patients with muscular dystrophy, muscle protein synthetic rate was, as previously reported [1], much lower in the fed state than in normal subjects. A new finding is that for patients with myotonic dystrophy the rate is also depressed in the post-absorptive state. 3. We suggest that the present estimates in post-absorptive and fed normal subjects be used as reference values for quadriceps mixed muscle protein synthetic rate.
authors.affiliation: Nutrition Research Group, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middx., U.K.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Halliday
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Pacy
authors.forename: K N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dworzak
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rennie
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D007408:Intestinal Absorption; D007930:Leucine / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism*; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D009124:Muscle Proteins; D007930:Leucine