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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Nutr. 2008 Oct;138(10):1887–1894. doi: 10.1093/jn/138.10.1887

TABLE 1.

Plasma concentration of branched-chain amino acids and insulin in rats treated with AICAR, leucine, both, or neither1

Leucine Isoleucine Valine Insulin
μmol/L μmol/L μmol/L pmol/L
Sal + Sal 165 ± 6c 57 ± 4c 118 ± 5b 547 ± 41b
AICAR + Sal 293 ± 16b 105 ± 4a 194 ± 10a 304 ± 44c
Sal + Leu 773 ± 45a 57 ± 6c 80 ± 5c 814 ± 93a
AICAR + Leu 968 ± 93a 82 ± 9b 142 ± 13b 160 ± 46c
1

Values are means ± SEM; n = 8-10 per group. Means in a column without a common letter differ, P < 0.05.