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 |
|
|
- 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 
.
, 
, and 
.