Dietary leucine--an environmental modifier of insulin resistance acting on multiple levels of metabolism.

Dietary leucine--an environmental modifier of insulin resistance acting on multiple levels of metabolism.

Environmental factors, such as the macronutrient composition of the diet, can have a profound impact on risk of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. In the present study we demonstrate how a single, simple dietary factor--leucine--can modify insulin resistance by acting on multiple tissues and at multip...

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Main Authors: Yazmin Macotela, Brice Emanuelli, Anneli M Bång, Daniel O Espinoza, Jeremie Boucher, Kirk Beebe, Walter Gall, C Ronald Kahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3120846?pdf=render

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