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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Oct;88(4):986–996. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/88.4.986

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Arterial specific radioactivity of 14C leucine, net hepatic branched chain amino acid balance and net 14C leucine utilization. Amino acids were infused as described in the legend to Figure 1 and Table 1. Arterial, portal and hepatic blood samples were drawn at the time indicated in the figure. Leucine and leucine SA were determined as described in “Materials and Methods”. The results represent the mean ± SE of 9 animals for each group. The statistical evaluation of the data was performed by a one-way measures analysis of variance to test the group effect. The Bonferroni test was employed for post hoc analysis. Values with different letters are significantly different, P <0.05.