Received January 19, 2005
Revised March 1, 2005
Accepted after revision March 30, 2005
Human/environmental and exercise physiology
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Body maintenance and repair - how food and exercise and keeps the musculoskeletal system in good shape
Michael J Rennie 1*
1 University of Nottingham
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: michael.rennie{at}nottingham.ac.uk.
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Abstract |
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This article is the text of the GL Brown Prize Lecture of the Physiological Society for 2004.
It provides a personal view of how feeding and exercise acutely modify protein metabolism of human skeletal muscle, with discussion of the anabolic signalling mechanisms involved, and some new findings on the metabolism of the turnover of collagen , tendon and bone.
Key Words:
Ageing, Amino acid, Skeletal muscle