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Contractile and nutritional regulation of human muscle growth
Blake B Rasmussen1, Stuart M Phillips
1Department of Kinesiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-0652, USA. blakeras@usc.edu
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
|July 29, 2003
Abstract:
Resistance exercise and nutritional provision are two independent and major stimuli of muscle protein synthesis and overall muscle growth. The focus of this review is on the regulation of muscle anabolism in humans after resistance exercise, nutritional provision, and a combination of the two.