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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 254: C258-C266, 1988;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 254, Issue 2 C258-C266, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society

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In vivo 31P-NMR spectroscopy of chronically stimulated canine skeletal muscle

B. J. Clark 3rd, M. A. Acker, K. McCully, H. V. Subramanian, R. L. Hammond, S. Salmons, B. Chance and L. W. Stephenson
Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Philadelphia 19105.

Chronic stimulation converts skeletal muscle of mixed fiber type to a uniform muscle made up of type I, fatigue-resistant fibers. Here, the bioenergetic correlates of fatigue resistance in conditioned canine latissimus dorsi are assessed with in vivo phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance (31P-NMR) spectroscopy. After chronic electrical stimulation, five dogs underwent 31P-NMR spectroscopic and isometric tension measurements on conditioned and contralateral control muscle during stimulation for 200, 300, 500, and 800 ms of an 1,100-ms duty cycle. With stimulation, phosphocreatine (PCr) fell proportional to the degree of stimulation in both conditioned and control muscle but fell significantly less in conditioned muscle at all but the least intense stimulation period (200 ms). Isometric tension, expressed as a tension time index per gram muscle, was significantly greater in the conditioned muscle at the two longest stimulation periods. The overall small change in PCr and the lack of a plateau in tension observed in the conditioned muscle are similar to that seen in cardiac muscle during increased energy demand. This study indicates that the conditioned muscle's markedly enhanced resistance to fatigue is in part the result of its increased capacity for oxidative phosphorylation.


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