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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 386, Issue 1, Pages 252-256Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.06.031
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Body temperature; Translation initiation; Anesthesia; Somatostatin; Hypothermia; Nutrient; Rat
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Amino acid (AA) administration can stimulate heat accumulation in the body, as especially found under anesthetic conditions. To test our hypothesis that marked rise in plasma insulin concentrations following AA administration plays an important role in the heat storage, we intravenously administered either a balanced AA mixture or saline over 3 h. both with and without a primed-constant infusion of somatostatin in propofol-anesthetized rats. Rats on AA but lacking marked rise in plasma insulin by somatostatin treatment failed to show: attenuation of fall in core body temperature: partial increases in oxygen consumption: and stimulated muscle protein synthesis. Furthermore, the AA's stimulatory effects on phosphorylation of mTOR, 4E-BP1, and S6K1 were partially blocked by somatostatin. Our findings strongly suggest that the marked rise in insulin following AA administration promote translation initiation activities and stimulate muscle protein synthesis, which facilitates heat accumulation in the body. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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