Protein Intake and Muscle Mass
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2019) | Viewed by 83796
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Our understanding of the impact of protein intake for the maintenance and growth of skeletal muscle has significant improved during the last decades of research. Further, commercial interests have evolved to encompass a huge market and important industrial developments now provide targeted ingredients and foods for various purposes. Beyond discussing the needs of the general population, research has identified numerous target conditions exploring special needs with a focus on protein intake. Examples include people on hypocaloric diets with the purpose of losing fat mass, people on hypocaloric diets in extreme conditions, healthy ageing adults, geriatric patients, people suffering from COPD and with impaired kidney function, individuals undergoing rehabilitation training to restore muscle mass and function, traumatised patients at intensive care units, and people with cancer, just to mention some.
It is generally acknowledged that skeletal muscle proteins in various conditions have a low priority and are used as a reservoir of amino acids. Therefore, the muscle mass can be exposed to degradation and, after prolonged degradation, atrophy to supply amino acids for other tissues’ protein turnover and/or for metabolic substrates.
This Special Issue in Nutrients, entitled ‘Protein Intake and Muscle Mass’ welcomes reviews, viewpoints, and original papers investigating and/or commenting on the associations between dietary protein intake and the maintenance, growth, and stimulation of muscle protein mass and/or their underlying mechanisms.
Prof. Lars Holm
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- muscle mass
- protein intake
- peptides
- crystalline amino acids
- daily amount
- meal distribution
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