The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Copenhagen, "The purpose of the present study was to test whether tracer priming given as a flooding dose, thereby securing an instantaneous labeling of the tissue pools of free tracee amino acids, followed by a continuous infusion of the same tracer to maintain tracer iso...

Amino Acids; Investigators at University of Copenhagen Report Findings in Amino Acids (The single-biopsy approach in determining protein synthesis in human slow-turning-over tissue: use of flood-primed, continuous infusion of amino acid tracers)