Figure 1

Effects of a leucine-rich diet on leucine incorporation into protein in gastrocnemius skeletal muscle from pregnant, tumour-bearing rats. Right gastrocnemius muscles from all experimental groups were incubated with [³H]-L-Leucine for 2 h. For details, see Methods. At least 10 rats were used per group. Abbreviations: C, control; W, tumour-bearing rats; P, pair-fed tumour-bearing rats; L, leucine-rich diet group; WL, tumour-bearing rats fed a leucine-rich diet; PL, pair-fed tumour-bearing group fed a leucine-rich diet. The columns are means ± SEM. * P < 0.05 estatistically different compared to all groups.