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Low muscle glycogen content has variable effects on the basal transcription of select metabolic and myogenic genes at rest.
Practitioners should consider that low glycogen levels may not uniformly affect gene expression related to muscle growth.
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Our results demonstrate that 1) low muscle glycogen content has variable effects on the basal transcription of select metabolic and myogenic genes at rest.
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Influence of preexercise muscle glycogen content on transcriptional activity of metabolic and myogenic genes in well-trained humans
Emmanuel G. Churchley et al. · Journal of Applied Physiology · 2007
DOI 10.1152/japplphysiol.01260.2006
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