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Published in final edited form as: Biol Mass Spectrom. 1992 Oct;21(10):486–490. doi: 10.1002/bms.1200211004

Table 3.

Muscle (¹³C)leucine enrichment and fractional skeletal muscle protein synthesis rates measured in duplicate capillary GC/combustion IRMS analyses of the same muscle sample taken from human vastus lateralis during an infusion of (1,2-¹³C₂)leucine

Subject	Muscle (¹³C) leucine enrichment (at.% excess)		Muscle protein synthesis rate (% h⁻¹)
Subject	Sample 1	Sample 2	Muscle protein synthesis rate (% h⁻¹)
1	0.0264	0.0264	0.035
2	0.0253	0.0286	0.033
3	0.0697	0.0719	0.070
4	0.0296	0.0310	0.040
5	0.0231	0.0231	0.025
6	0.0330	0.0379	0.046
7	0.0267	0.0311	0.037
8	0.0183	0.0216	0.023
9	0.0250	0.0311	0.044
10	0.0803	0.0781	0.147