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Skeletal muscle adaptation to exercise training is regulated by cyclic phases of protein synthesis and breakdown.
Understanding the regulation of protein turnover can help optimize training programs.
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Maintaining appropriate skeletal muscle integrity to meet the demands of training (i.e. increases in myofibrillar and/or mitochondrial protein) is regulated by cyclic phases of synthesis and breakdown.
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The abstract discusses established mechanisms of muscle adaptation.
Source
Effects of skeletal muscle energy availability on protein turnover responses to exercise
William J. Smiles et al. · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2016
DOI 10.1242/jeb.125104
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