Effects of Fortetropin on the Rate of Muscle Protein Synthesis in Older Men and Women: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Study.
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Fortetropin is a proteo-lipid complex made from fertilized egg yolk and, in young men, has been shown to increase lean body mass.Methods
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of 21 days of Fortetropin supplementation on the fractional synthetic rate (FSR) of muscle protein in 10 healthy, older men and 10 women (66.4 ± 4.5 y). We used 2H2O labeling to measure FSR of multiple muscle protein ontologies. D3-creatine dilution was used to determine muscle mass at baseline. Subjects ingested 70% 2H2O for 21 day and saliva samples were collected to determine body 2H2O enrichment. A microbiopsy was obtained from the m. vastus lateralis on Day 21. Subjects were randomly assigned to Fortetropin (19.8 g/d) or placebo (cheese powder, 19.8 g/d).Results
Restricting kinetic data to proteins with ≥2 peptides measured in at least 4 subjects per group resulted in 117 proteins meeting these criteria. The mean FSR for a majority of proteins in several muscle gene ontologies was higher in the Fortetropin group compared to placebo (32/38 myofibril proteins, 33/44 sarcoplasmic proteins, and 12/17 mitochondrial proteins) and this proportion was significantly different between groups using a binomial test and were independent of sex or baseline muscle mass.Conclusions
The overall magnitude of the difference in muscle protein FSR of Fortetropin from placebo was 18%, with multiple gene ontologies affected. While these results should be confirmed in larger cohorts, they suggest that Fortetropin supplementation is effective for promoting muscle protein synthesis in older people.Type
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Evans, William, Mahalakshmi Shankaran, Edna Nyangau, Tyler Field, Hussein Mohammed, Robert Wolfe, Scott Schutzler, Marc Hellerstein, et al. (2021). Effects of Fortetropin on the Rate of Muscle Protein Synthesis in Older Men and Women: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Study. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 76(1). pp. 108–114. 10.1093/gerona/glaa162 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23416.
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