Direct and specific measurements of glutamine in intact muscle protein were 50% lower than assumed previously. We used data compiled from earlier studies to recalculate the contributions of proteolysis and de novo synthesis to the endogenous production of glutamine in selected age groups of healthy humans; these contributions remained remarkably constant at approximately 13% and approximately 87%, respectively.
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