Fig. 5

Effects of a leucine-rich diet in gastrocnemius skeletal muscle from tumour-bearing rats. a Phenylalanine incorporation, b Tyrosine release, c Total muscle protein net (represented by phenylalanine/tyrosine ratio), d Leucine incorporation, e KIC incorporation into muscle protein in different groups. For details, see Methods. Abbreviations: C, control; L, leucine-rich diet group; W, tumour-bearing rats; WL, tumour-bearing rats fed a leucine-rich diet. Graphics represent mean ± standard deviation. Statistical significance is presented in Table 1 after two-way Anova analysis, followed by the Fisher’s LSD multiple comparison test; P < 0.05