Endotoxin disrupts the leucine-signaling
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Charles H. Lang; Robert A. Frost
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Endotoxin (i.e., lipopolysaccharide, LPS) impairs skeletal muscle protein synthesis. Although this impairment is not acutely associated with a decreased plasma concentration of total amino acids, LPS may blunt the anabolic response to amino acids. To examine this hypothesis, rats were i