Fig. 2
From: The bright and the dark sides of L-carnitine supplementation: a systematic review
The association between LC supplementation and the regulation of metabolic pathways involved in muscle protein balance. L-carnitine (LC); insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1); phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K); protein kinase B (Akt); mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR); forkhead box O (FoxO); muscle-specific RING finger-1 (MuRF-1); muscle atrophy F-box (atrogin-1); increase (
); decrease (
); activation (
); inactivation (
)