NIH R01 · 2025
REGULATION OF NEONATAL MUSCLE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
ABSTRACT Most premature infants experience extrauterine growth restriction for reasons that are unclear and are at in- creased lifelong risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes. Our long-term goal is to identify mechanisms that diminish lean growth and alter metabolic responses to nutrition in preterm infants; these findings will inform the develop- ment of new nutritional strategies to improve outcomes. The objective of this application is to determine if per- sistence of the anabolic resistance to feeding following premature birth impairs lean growth and if specific amino acid supplementation ameliorates lean mass accretion. The central hypothesis is that prematurity limits lean growth by…
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