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. 2014 Jan 20;9(1):e83437. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083437

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