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. 1980 Jan 15;186(1):381–383. doi: 10.1042/bj1860381

Contribution of rat liver and gastrointestinal tract to whole-body protein synthesis in the rat.

M A McNurlan, P J Garlick
PMCID: PMC1161542  PMID: 7370020

Abstract

The rate of protein synthesis was assessed in liver, stomach, small and large intestine and in the whole body of rats by injection of 100 mumol of [14C]leucine/100 g body wt. In each of the tissues turnover was very rapid, so that taken together they accounted for 43% of the protein synthesized by the whole animal.

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