Effect of intravenous amino acids on protein kinetics in preterm infants
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
- Vol. 10 (1), 69-74
- https://doi.org/10.1097/mco.0b013e328011924d
Abstract
To summarize recent findings of the effects of intravenous amino acids on protein kinetics in low-birth-weight infants and to describe the potential cellular mechanism for these observations. Amino acids administered intravenously for 3–5 h in infants have been shown to suppress whole-body proteolysis. Recent data in low-birth-weight infants show that an increase in the dose of amino acid caused a suppression of proteolysis, and a decrease in the rate of glutamine and urea synthesis. These responses returned to basal state, however, when the amino acid infusion continued for 20–24 h. Supplementation with glutamine sustained the suppression of proteolysis after 3–5 days. Plasma insulin concentration did not change during the amino acid infusion. Data from studies in adults and from in vitro studies suggest that the amino acids impact protein breakdown and synthesis via the mammalian target of rapamycin pathway, stimulating initiation of translation and suppressing autophagic proteolysis. Intravenous amino acids, by increasing extracellular amino acid concentration, transiently stimulate protein synthesis and suppress protein breakdown. These effects return to basal state when the amino acid infusions are prolonged. The mechanism of this adaptive response remains to be determined.Keywords
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