Artigo Revisado por pares

Fiber-type composition of nine rat muscles. II. Relationship to protein turnover

1989; American Physiological Society; Volume: 257; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1152/ajpendo.1989.257.6.e828

ISSN

1522-1555

Autores

P.J. Garlick, C. A. Maltin, A. G. Baillie, M. I. Delday, D. A. Grubb,

Tópico(s)

Meat and Animal Product Quality

Resumo

Rates of protein synthesis in vivo and fiber-type composition were measured in nine limb muscles of female rats at ages ranging from weaning to 1 yr. In all muscles, there was a decline in protein synthesis with increasing age, mostly as a result of a fall in the RNA content. Rates of protein breakdown and growth were determined in six muscles and these also declined with age. Regression analysis of the data for all ages showed that protein synthesis was correlated with the content of slow oxidative fibers but not with the relative proportions of fast glycolytic to fast oxidative glycolytic fibers.

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