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The Impact of Essential Amino Acids on Muscle and Tendon Adaptation After Eccentric Exercise

Do older adults require more leucine to stimulate muscle protein synthesis?

A recent large-scale study challenged the long-held belief that older adults need more leucine to stimulate muscle prote...

Essential amino acids and muscle protein recovery from resistance exercise

Metabolic Evaluation of the Dietary Guidelines’ Ounce Equivalents of Protein Food Sources in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Latency and duration of stimulation of human muscle protein synthesis during continuous infusion of amino acids

Dose–response relationship between protein intake and muscle mass increase: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease

Excess leucine intake enhances muscle anabolic signaling but not net protein anabolism in young men and women

Timing of amino acid-carbohydrate ingestion alters anabolic response of muscle to resistance exercise

Exogenous amino acids stimulate human muscle anabolism without interfering with the response to mixed meal ingestion

Dietary essential amino acids are highly anabolic in pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis

Regulation of muscle protein by amino acids

The core conclusion is precise: plasma concentrations of essential amino acids (EAA) are the primary driver of MPS.