Table 2.

Skeletal muscle and organ weight in control and leucine-supplemented rats

	Control	LEU
Muscles (g)
Gastrocnemius	5.31 ± 0.1	5.15 ± 0.11
Tibialis anterior	1.83 ± 0.04	1.80 ± 0.04
EDL	0.470 ± 0.009	0.452 ± 0.008
Soleus	0.392 ± 0.009	0.390 ± 0.009
Perirenal adipose tissue (g)	17.63 ± 1.07	25.53 ± 1.51*
Heart (g)	1.71 ± 0.04	1.69 ± 0.03
Liver (g)	16.19 ± 0.44	16.90 ± 0.34
Kidneys (g)	6.06 ± 0.40	5.78 ± 0.35
Spleen (g)	1.453 ± 0.051	1.383 ± 0.047

Values are means±SEM, n = 35 and 36

*P < 0.0001