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Table 7 Tissue weights, protein concentration, and protein content.

From: Alterations in protein and amino acid metabolism in rats fed a branched-chain amino acid- or leucine-enriched diet during postprandial and postabsorptive states

 

Fed animals

Overnight starved animals

SLD (n = 10)

HVLID (n = 10)

HLD (n = 9)

SLD + S (n =10)

HVLID + S (n = 10)

HLD + S (n = 10)

M. gastrocnemius

- Weight (g/kg b.w.)

4.16 ± 0.20

4.45 ± 0.21

4.09 ± 0.23

4.67 ± 0.67

4.69 ± 0.12

4.29 ± 0.14

- Protein (mg/g)

240 ± 8

234 ± 8

231 ± 5

233 ± 6

245 ± 7

238 ± 6

- Protein (mg/kg b.w.)

996 ± 58

1047 ± 72

946 ± 56

1088 ± 56

1144 ± 30

1027 ± 57

M. soleus

- Weight (g/kg b.w.)

0.43 ± 0.01

0.48 ± 0.02

0.40 ± 0.01 c

0.49 ± 0.01 b

0.51 ± 0.01

0.42 ± 0.01 a,c

- Protein (mg/g)

223 ± 14

218 ± 7

228 ± 11

225 ± 4

241 ± 5

243 ± 10

- Protein (mg/kg b.w.)

97 ± 3

104 ± 4

91 ± 6

110 ± 3

122 ± 5 b

102 ± 6 c

M. ext. digitorum longus

- Weight (g/kg b.w.)

0.42 ± 0.01

0.43 ± 0.01

0.39 ± 0.00 a,c

0.45 ± 0.01

0.45 ± 0.01

0.41 ± 0.01 a,c

- Protein (mg/g)

271 ± 7

251 ± 6

272 ± 7

279 ± 8

262 ± 11

266 ± 8

- Protein (mg/kg b.w.)

114 ± 5

109 ± 4

97 ± 3 a

127 ± 4

118 ± 5

109 ± 3 a

Liver

- Weight (g/kg b.w.)

35.87 ± 1.05

37.35 ± 0.68

39.35 ± 0.80 a

27.36 ± 0.49 b

26.96 ± 0.64 b

30.07 ± 0.7 b,c

- Protein (mg/g)

244 ± 8

242 ± 6

240 ± 8

320 ± 9 b

270 ± 6 a,b

278 ± 8 a,b

- Protein (mg/kg b.w.)

8780 ± 462

9010 ± 235

9434 ± 386

8718 ± 190

7272 ± 184 b,c

8350 ± 293

Jejunum

- Protein (mg/g)

197 ± 7

181 ± 8

176 ± 5

199 ± 9

179 ± 12

166 ± 6

Kidney

- Weight (g/kg b.w.)

3.21 ± 0.13

3.56 ± 0.07 a

3.61 ± 0.10 a

3.18 ± 0.07

3.53 ± 0.09 a

3.44 ± 0.07 a

- Protein (mg/g)

222 ± 8

229 ± 9

222 ± 4

213 ± 7

221 ± 5

222 ± 6

- Protein (mg/kg b.w.)

709 ± 28

815 ± 32 a

798 ± 19 a

674 ± 24

774 ± 9 a

761 ± 18 a

  1. Means ± SE, p ˂ 0.05
  2. a compared to the corresponding control (SLD or SLD + S)
  3. b compared to the corresponding fed group
  4. c HLD (HLD + S) vs. HVLID (HVLID + S). Abbreviations as indicated in Table 1