Acute cocoa flavanol supplementation improves muscle macro- and microvascular but not anabolic responses to amino acids in older men

Phillips, Bethan E.; Atherton, Philip J.; Varadhan, Krishna; Limb, Marie C.; Williams, John P.; Smith, Kenneth

doi:10.1139/apnm-2015-0543

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Human Skeletal Muscle Protein Metabolism Responses to Amino Acid Nutrition (2016)
Journal Article

Healthy individuals maintain remarkably constant skeletal muscle mass across much of adult life, suggesting the existence of robust homeostatic mechanisms. Muscle exists in dynamic equilibrium whereby the influx of amino acids (AAs) and the resulting... Read More about Human Skeletal Muscle Protein Metabolism Responses to Amino Acid Nutrition.

An overview of technical considerations for Western blotting applications to physiological research (2016)
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The applications of Western/immuno-blotting (WB) techniques have reached multiple layers of the scientific community and are now considered routine procedures in the field of physiology. This is none more so than in relation to skeletal muscle physio... Read More about An overview of technical considerations for Western blotting applications to physiological research.

Acute cocoa flavanol supplementation improves muscle macro- and microvascular but not anabolic responses to amino acids in older men (2016)
Journal Article

The anabolic effects of nutrition on skeletal muscle may depend on adequate skeletal muscle perfusion, which is impaired in older people. Cocoa flavanols have been shown to improve flow-mediated dilation, an established measure of endothelial functio... Read More about Acute cocoa flavanol supplementation improves muscle macro- and microvascular but not anabolic responses to amino acids in older men.