Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Important role of muscle carnosine in rowing performance

Carnosine is a dipeptide that is present in human skeletal muscle.  This study showed that by supplementing the diet of rowers with alanine (close derivative of carnosine) that levels of carnosine can be increased which lead to increased rowing performance.

http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/109/4/1096?rss=1

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