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Table 2 Concentration of amino acids in plasma during consumption of basal diet and basal diet with added leucine.

From: The Effect of Oral Leucine on Protein Metabolism in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Amino Acid

Basal diet(μ mol/L)

(μ mol/L)

Alanine

Glutamic Acid

Asparagine

Serine

Glutamine

Histidine

Glycine

Threonine

Arginine

Aspartic Acid

Phenylalanine

Tyrosine

Valine

Methionine

Tryptophan

Isoleucine

Leucine

Lysine

  1. Amino acid concentrations in plasma were determined by HPLC as described in Methods. The differences between the period of consumption of the basal diet and during consumption of the basal diet with added leucine are significant at , , and .