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SynthesisNutrients2025

Whey Protein Supplementation Combined with Exercise on Muscle Protein Synthesis and the AKT/mTOR Pathway in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Xiaorong Ji, Xuanyin Ye, Shuyi Ji, Shuxin Zhang, Yuwen Wang, Zhibei Zhou, Dao Xiang, Beibei Luo

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Nutrients, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Xiaorong JiShanghai Key Laboratory of Human Performance, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China.
Xuanyin YeSchool of Exercise and Health, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China.
Shuyi JiShanghai Key Laboratory of Human Performance, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China.
Shuxin ZhangSchool of Exercise and Health, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China.
Yuwen WangSchool of Exercise and Health, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China.
Zhibei ZhouSchool of Exercise and Health, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China.
Dao XiangNaval Medical Center, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Beibei LuoShanghai Key Laboratory of Human Performance, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4569-7054

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 31701040Shanghai Key Lab of Human Performance (Shanghai University of Sport) 11DZ2261100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Dietary SupplementsExerciseMuscle ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesWhey ProteinsAdultFemaleHumansMaleMuscle, SkeletalPhosphorylationSignal TransductionMTOR protein, humanMuscle ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktTOR Serine-Threonine KinasesWhey ProteinsAKTexercisemTORmuscle protein synthesiswhey protein

Identifiers

PMID40871607
PMCPMC12389377

What Socratic holds

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Registered trials

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