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Robert R. Wolfe is affiliated with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with a focus on physiology, cell biology, molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as orthopedics and sports medicine.

The scientist's main topics of study revolve around muscle metabolism and nutrition, diet and metabolism studies, muscle physiology and disorders, sports performance and training, nutrition and health in aging, adipose tissue and metabolism, and obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Essential Amino Acids and Protein Synthesis: Insights into Maximizing the Muscle and Whole-Body Response to Feeding, 2020, Nutrients
  • Pre- and Post-Surgical Nutrition for Preservation of Muscle Mass, Strength, and Functionality Following Orthopedic Surgery, 2021, Nutrients
  • Metabolic Effects of Late Dinner in Healthy Volunteers-A Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Muscle Protein Synthesis and Whole-Body Protein Turnover Responses to Ingesting Essential Amino Acids, Intact Protein, and Protein-Containing Mixed Meals with Considerations for Energy Deficit, 2020, Nutrients
  • The anabolic role of the Warburg, Cori-cycle and Crabtree effects in health and disease, 2021, Clinical Nutrition

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert R. Wolfe are:

  • Arny A. Ferrando
  • David D. Church
  • Il-Young Kim
  • Sanghee Park
  • Gohar Azhar

The most common venues for their publications include:

  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • Nutrients
  • The FASEB Journal
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • Current Developments in Nutrition

Best Publications

  • Cachexia: a new definition.

    William J. Evans;John E. Morley;Josep Argilés;Connie Bales

  • Regulation of endogenous fat and carbohydrate metabolism in relation to exercise intensity and duration.

    J. A. Romijn;E. F. Coyle;L. S. Sidossis;A. Gastaldelli

  • The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease

    Robert R Wolfe

  • Mixed muscle protein synthesis and breakdown after resistance exercise in humans

    Stuart M Phillips;Kevin Tipton;Asle A Aarsland;Steven E Wolf

  • An abundant supply of amino acids enhances the metabolic effect of exercise on muscle protein

    Gianni Biolo;Kevin D. Tipton;Samuel Klein;Robert R. Wolfe

  • A high proportion of leucine is required for optimal stimulation of the rate of muscle protein synthesis by essential amino acids in the elderly

    Christos S. Katsanos;Christos S. Katsanos;Hisamine Kobayashi;Melinda Sheffield-Moore;Asle Aarsland

  • Increased rates of muscle protein turnover and amino acid transport after resistance exercise in humans

    Gianni Biolo;Sergio P. Maggi;Bradley D. Williams;Kevin D. Tipton

  • Essential amino acids are primarily responsible for the amino acid stimulation of muscle protein anabolism in healthy elderly adults

    Elena Volpi;Hisamine Kobayashi;Melinda Sheffield-Moore;Bettina Mittendorfer;Bettina Mittendorfer

  • Postexercise net protein synthesis in human muscle from orally administered amino acids.

    Kevin D. Tipton;Arny A. Ferrando;Stuart M. Phillips;David Doyle

  • Effect of 10 days of bed rest on skeletal muscle in healthy older adults.

    Patrick Kortebein;Arny Ferrando;Juan Lombeida;Robert Wolfe

  • Timing of amino acid-carbohydrate ingestion alters anabolic response of muscle to resistance exercise

    Kevin D. Tipton;Kevin D. Tipton;Blake B. Rasmussen;Blake B. Rasmussen;Sharon L. Miller;Sharon L. Miller;Steven E. Wolf

  • An oral essential amino acid-carbohydrate supplement enhances muscle protein anabolism after resistance exercise

    Blake B. Rasmussen;Kevin D. Tipton;Sharon L. Miller;Steven E. Wolf

  • Testosterone administration to elderly men increases skeletal muscle strength and protein synthesis.

    Randall Urban;Y. H. Bodenburg;C. Gilkison;J. Foxworth

  • Hypoalbuminemia: Pathogenesis and Clinical Significance.

    Peter B. Soeters;Robert R. Wolfe;Alan Shenkin

  • Protein, weight management, and satiety

    Douglas Paddon-Jones;Eric Westman;Richard D Mattes;Robert R Wolfe

  • Carbohydrate metabolism during pregnancy in control subjects and women with gestational diabetes.

    Patrick Catalano;E. D. Tyzbir;R. R. Wolfe;J. Calles

  • Essential amino acids and muscle protein recovery from resistance exercise

    Elisabet Børsheim;Kevin D. Tipton;Steven E. Wolf;Robert R. Wolfe

  • Reversal of catabolism by beta-blockade after severe burns.

    David N. Herndon;David W. Hart;Steven E. Wolf;David L. Chinkes

  • Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis

    Robert R. Wolfe;David L. Chinkes

  • Human Muscle Protein Synthesis is Modulated by Extracellular, Not Intramuscular Amino Acid Availability: A Dose‐Response Study

    Julien Bohé;Aili Low;Robert R. Wolfe;Michael J. Rennie

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Herndon
David N. Herndon The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Steven E. Wolf
Steven E. Wolf The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Nicolaas E. P. Deutz
Nicolaas E. P. Deutz Texas A&M University
Elena Volpi
Elena Volpi The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Amalia Gastaldelli
Amalia Gastaldelli National Research Council (CNR)
Blake B. Rasmussen
Blake B. Rasmussen The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
William J. Evans
William J. Evans University of California, Berkeley
Stuart M. Phillips
Stuart M. Phillips McMaster University
Samuel Klein
Samuel Klein Washington University in St. Louis
Edward F. Coyle
Edward F. Coyle The University of Texas at Austin

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