• Dietary arginine and linear growth: the Copenhagen School Child Intervention Study 

      van Vught, Anneke J. A. H.; Dagnelie, Peter C.; Arts, Ilja C. W.; Froberg, Karsten; Andersen, Lars Bo; El-Naaman, Bianca; Bugge, Anna; Nielsen, Birgit Marie; Heitmann, Berit L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-10-10)
      The amino acid arginine is a well-known growth hormone (GH) stimulator and GH is an important modulator of linear growth. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of dietary arginine on growth velocity ...
    • Physiological elevation of endogenous hormones results in superior strength training adaptation 

      Rønnestad, Bent R.; Nygaard, Håvard; Raastad, Truls (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of transiently elevated endogenous hormone concentrations during exercise on strength training adaptations. Nine subjects performed four unilateral strength training ...