Table 3. Mean muscle free amino acid profile (µmol/kg).
Sedentary | Exercised | |||||||||||
Amino acid | CAS | WP | WPH | CAS | WP | WPH | ||||||
Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | |
Aspartic acid | 532.42c | 42.76 | 1524.03a | 1077.65 | 906.90b | 325.00 | 375.42c | 17.13 | 646.02bc | 269.61 | 441.08c | 42.93 |
Glutamate | 2624.71c | 480.19 | 4256.60ab | 126.96 | 4035.48ab | 1549.37 | 2576.68c | 99.54 | 4681.69a | 699.52 | 3225.35bc | 397.79 |
Hydroxyproline | 158.64bc | 46.98 | 249.64a | 176.52 | 149.35bc | 27.47 | 122.15bc | 7.06 | 173.05b | 1.74 | 94.78c | 15.93 |
Asparagine | 857.15ab | 199.66 | 944.32a | 87.34 | 874.02ab | 170.18 | 664.58bc | 9.20 | 919.84a | 75.23 | 615.50c | 90.54 |
Serine | 2183.06 | 449.53 | 2117.05 | 234.78 | 1973.73 | 359.99 | 1817.59 | 115.28 | 2119.35 | 293.29 | 1672.45 | 60.15 |
Glutamine | 8446.66bc | 1522.09 | 10223.21b | 172.63 | 9073.03bc | 2046.33 | 7139.44c | 99.72 | 12936.53a | 461.69 | 7892.17c | 557.05 |
Glycine | 708.24b | 63.25 | 869.51a | 74.03 | 760.64ab | 75.47 | 514.64c | 24.37 | 744.21ab | 89.08 | 525.45c | 70.31 |
Histidine | 281.92 | 79.71 | 200.30 | 8.20 | 262.83 | 58.63 | 218.94 | 29.43 | 198.35 | 109.05 | 160.98 | 25.15 |
Arginine | 11988.93c | 1922.66 | 15603.53b | 11033.36 | 18411.99a | 142.16 | 9607.97d | 467.83 | 16896.30ab | 1505.50 | 11950.89c | 343.63 |
Taurine | 3240.83c | 407.41 | 4304.41b | 134.75 | 5073.11a | 8.47 | 2477.55d | 19.39 | 4595.29ab | 758.24 | 3345.59c | 123.78 |
Threonine | 2419.16cd | 597.10 | 2976.74abc | 184.50 | 3338.21ab | 729.38 | 1993.04d | 157.46 | 3674.79a | 548.61 | 2564.9bcd | 164.88 |
Alanine | 978.16cd | 404.07 | 1663.98a | 11.00 | 1359.05ab | 255.30 | 664.92d | 12.88 | 1515.24a | 83.34 | 1124.42bc | 80.10 |
Proline | 1035.64a | 151.87 | 808.23b | 16.14 | 908.52ab | 21.87 | 939.99ab | 49.42 | 811.20b | 33.05 | 881.92b | 30.33 |
Tyrosine | 87.44a | 22.40 | 54.24b | 3.18 | 46.25b | 5.01 | 88.71a | 8.73 | 66.09b | 8.10 | 49.72b | 2.15 |
Valine | 218.63b | 40.14 | 175.23b | 6.97 | 218.51ab | 20.52 | 204.93b | 35.65 | 258.97a | 1.44 | 213.93ab | 34.91 |
Methionine | 98.62 | 26.08 | 89.65 | 10.62 | 95.19 | 7.63 | 78.25 | 6.73 | 99.97 | 18.88 | 94.95 | 1.48 |
Cystine | 8.80c | 1.00 | 12.30b | 8.69 | 18.90b | 0.26 | 48.73a | 20.20 | 31.49ab | 21.36 | 17.85b | 0.68 |
Isoleucine | 50.07c | 6.79 | 48.18c | 10.06 | 95.80b | 9.05 | 93.46b | 44.92 | 97.64b | 7.18 | 141.36a | 34.81 |
Leucine | 138.45b | 6.48 | 131.97b | 2.95 | 220.82a | 25.09 | 139.75b | 21.76 | 209.07a | 18.98 | 199.73a | 4.76 |
Phenylalanine | 63.79 | 3.32 | 41.89 | 26.43 | 67.32 | 15.35 | 59.02 | 1.42 | 55.63 | 3.89 | 67.90 | 12.27 |
Tryptophan | 19.66c | 3.63 | 39.06ab | 3.06 | 33.76b | 10.36 | 11.63c | 3.61 | 47.58a | 6.18 | 34.65b | 10.20 |
Lysine | 895.09ab | 263.05 | 1159.80a | 192.02 | 1197.71a | 370.21 | 558.00b | 67.22 | 897.17ab | 136.76 | 979.09ab | 233.35 |