Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during Sarcopenia

Skeletal muscle loss is observed in several physiopathological situations. Strategies to prevent, slow down, or increase recovery of muscle have already been tested. Besides exercise, nutrition, and more particularly protein nutrition based on increased amino acid, leucine or the quality of protein...

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Main Authors: Dominique Dardevet, Didier Rémond, Marie-Agnès Peyron, Isabelle Papet, Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux, Laurent Mosoni
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/269531
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Didier Rémond
Marie-Agnès Peyron
Isabelle Papet
Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux
Laurent Mosoni
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description Skeletal muscle loss is observed in several physiopathological situations. Strategies to prevent, slow down, or increase recovery of muscle have already been tested. Besides exercise, nutrition, and more particularly protein nutrition based on increased amino acid, leucine or the quality of protein intake has generated positive acute postprandial effect on muscle protein anabolism. However, on the long term, these nutritional strategies have often failed in improving muscle mass even if given for long periods of time in both humans and rodent models. Muscle mass loss situations have been often correlated to a resistance of muscle protein anabolism to food intake which may be explained by an increase of the anabolic threshold toward the stimulatory effect of amino acids. In this paper, we will emphasize how this anabolic resistance may affect the intensity and the duration of the muscle anabolic response at the postprandial state and how it may explain the negative results obtained on the long term in the prevention of muscle mass. Sarcopenia, the muscle mass loss observed during aging, has been chosen to illustrate this concept but it may be kept in mind that it could be extended to any other catabolic states or recovery situations.
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spelling doaj-art-cde9c275a112411787b9d53ed6c9124d2025-02-03T05:59:24ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal1537-744X2012-01-01201210.1100/2012/269531269531Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during SarcopeniaDominique Dardevet0Didier Rémond1Marie-Agnès Peyron2Isabelle Papet3Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux4Laurent Mosoni5Clermont Université and Unité de Nutrition Humaine, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, FranceClermont Université and Unité de Nutrition Humaine, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, FranceClermont Université and Unité de Nutrition Humaine, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, FranceClermont Université and Unité de Nutrition Humaine, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, FranceClermont Université and Unité de Nutrition Humaine, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, FranceClermont Université and Unité de Nutrition Humaine, Université d'Auvergne, BP 10448, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, FranceSkeletal muscle loss is observed in several physiopathological situations. Strategies to prevent, slow down, or increase recovery of muscle have already been tested. Besides exercise, nutrition, and more particularly protein nutrition based on increased amino acid, leucine or the quality of protein intake has generated positive acute postprandial effect on muscle protein anabolism. However, on the long term, these nutritional strategies have often failed in improving muscle mass even if given for long periods of time in both humans and rodent models. Muscle mass loss situations have been often correlated to a resistance of muscle protein anabolism to food intake which may be explained by an increase of the anabolic threshold toward the stimulatory effect of amino acids. In this paper, we will emphasize how this anabolic resistance may affect the intensity and the duration of the muscle anabolic response at the postprandial state and how it may explain the negative results obtained on the long term in the prevention of muscle mass. Sarcopenia, the muscle mass loss observed during aging, has been chosen to illustrate this concept but it may be kept in mind that it could be extended to any other catabolic states or recovery situations.http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/269531
spellingShingle Dominique Dardevet
Didier Rémond
Marie-Agnès Peyron
Isabelle Papet
Isabelle Savary-Auzeloux
Laurent Mosoni
Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during Sarcopenia
The Scientific World Journal
title Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during Sarcopenia
title_full Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during Sarcopenia
title_fullStr Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during Sarcopenia
title_full_unstemmed Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during Sarcopenia
title_short Muscle Wasting and Resistance of Muscle Anabolism: The “Anabolic Threshold Concept” for Adapted Nutritional Strategies during Sarcopenia
title_sort muscle wasting and resistance of muscle anabolism the anabolic threshold concept for adapted nutritional strategies during sarcopenia
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/269531
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