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Amino Acid/Protein Turnover
Deuteromics
- Deuteromics White Paper March 2014
- Application of 2H2O to measure skeletal muscle protein synthesis
- A novel oral tracer procedure for measurement of myofibrillar protein synthesis
- A validation of the application of D2O stable isotope tracer techniques for monitoring day-to-day changes in muscle protein subfraction synthesis in humans
Energy Expenditure
Gastric Emptying
- AGA position on gastric emptying breath tests
- Gastric Motility Studies
- Gastric emptying characteristics of a novel 13C-octanoate-labeled muffin meal
- Effect of meal size and test duration on gastric emptying and gastric myoelectrical activity as determined with simultaneous [13C]octanoate breath test and electrogastrography in normal subjects using a muffin meal
- Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying with a simple muffin meal using [13C]octanoate breath test and scintigraphy in normal subjects and patients with dyspeptic symptoms
Glucose Kinetics
Latest Advances
Lipid Kinetics
- Dietary fat oxidation
- Validation of deuterium labeled fatty acids for measurement of fat oxidation
- Impaired fatty acid oxidation in type 2 diabetics
- Increase in fat oxidation on high fat diet
- Acute IL-6 treatment increases fatty acid turnover
- Endurance training increases fatty acid turnover
- Glycerol turnover with growth hormone receptor deficiency
- Fatty acid metabolism measured with stable isotope tracers
- De novo lipogenesis and cholesterol synthesis in type 1 diabetes