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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Volume 280, Issue 2, Pages E340-E348Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.2001.280.2.E340
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amino acid turnover; postprandial protein anabolism; milk protein; stable isotopes
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To evaluate the importance of protein digestion rate on protein deposition, we characterized leucine kinetics after ingestion of protein meals of identical amino acid composition and nitrogen contents but of different digestion rates. Four groups of five or six young men received an L-[1-C-13] leucine infusion and one of the following 30-g protein meals: a single meal of slowly digested casein (CAS), a single meal of free amino acid mimicking casein composition (AA), a single meal of rapidly digested whey proteins (WP), or repeated meals of whey proteins (RPT-WP) mimicking slow digestion rate. Comparisons were made between fast (AA, WP) and slow (CAS, RPT-WP) meals of identical amino acid composition (AA vs. CAS, and WP vs. RPT-WP). The fast meals induced a strong, rapid, and transient increase of aminoacidemia, leucine flux, and oxidation. After slow meals, these parameters increased moderately but durably. Postprandial leucine balance over 7 h was higher after the slow than after the fast meals (CAS: 38 +/- 13 vs. AA: -12 +/- 11, P < 0.01; RPT-WP: 87 +/- 25 vs. WP: 6 +/- 19 mmol/kg, P < 0.05). Protein digestion rate is an independent factor modulating postprandial protein deposition.
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