Prolonged exercise to fatigue in humans impairs skeletal muscle Na+-K+-ATPase activity, sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release, and Ca2+ uptake

2004 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 1414-1423 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Leppik ◽  
Robert J. Aughey ◽  
Ivan Medved ◽  
Ian Fairweather ◽  
Michael F. Carey ◽  
...  

Prolonged exhaustive submaximal exercise in humans induces marked metabolic changes, but little is known about effects on muscle Na+-K+-ATPase activity and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ regulation. We therefore investigated whether these processes were impaired during cycling exercise at 74.3 ± 1.2% maximal O2 uptake (mean ± SE) continued until fatigue in eight healthy subjects (maximal O2 uptake of 3.93 ± 0.69 l/min). A vastus lateralis muscle biopsy was taken at rest, at 10 and 45 min of exercise, and at fatigue. Muscle was analyzed for in vitro Na+-K+-ATPase activity [maximal K+-stimulated 3- O-methylfluorescein phosphatase (3- O-MFPase) activity], Na+-K+-ATPase content ([3H]ouabain binding sites), sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release rate induced by 4 chloro- m-cresol, and Ca2+ uptake rate. Cycling time to fatigue was 72.18 ± 6.46 min. Muscle 3- O-MFPase activity (nmol·min−1·g protein−1) fell from rest by 6.6 ± 2.1% at 10 min ( P < 0.05), by 10.7 ± 2.3% at 45 min ( P < 0.01), and by 12.6 ± 1.6% at fatigue ( P < 0.01), whereas 3[H]ouabain binding site content was unchanged. Ca2+ release (mmol·min−1·g protein−1) declined from rest by 10.0 ± 3.8% at 45 min ( P < 0.05) and by 17.9 ± 4.1% at fatigue ( P < 0.01), whereas Ca2+ uptake rate fell from rest by 23.8 ± 12.2% at fatigue ( P = 0.05). However, the decline in muscle 3- O-MFPase activity, Ca2+ uptake, and Ca2+ release were variable and not significantly correlated with time to fatigue. Thus prolonged exhaustive exercise impaired each of the maximal in vitro Na+-K+-ATPase activity, Ca2+ release, and Ca2+ uptake rates. This suggests that acutely downregulated muscle Na+, K+, and Ca2+ transport processes may be important factors in fatigue during prolonged exercise in humans.

2007 ◽  
Vol 293 (1) ◽  
pp. R354-R362 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Green ◽  
T. A. Duhamel ◽  
K. P. Foley ◽  
J. Ouyang ◽  
I. C. Smith ◽  
...  

Regulation of maximal Na+-K+-ATPase activity in vastus lateralis muscle was investigated in response to prolonged exercise with (G) and without (NG) oral glucose supplements. Fifteen untrained volunteers (14 males and 1 female) with a peak aerobic power (V̇o2peak) of 44.8 ± 1.9 ml·kg−1·min−1; mean ± SE cycled at ∼57% V̇o2peak to fatigue during both NG (artificial sweeteners) and G (6.13 ± 0.09% glucose) in randomized order. Consumption of beverage began at 30 min and continued every 15 min until fatigue. Time to fatigue was increased ( P < 0.05) in G compared with NG (137 ± 7 vs. 115 ± 6 min). Maximal Na+-K+-ATPase activity (Vmax) as measured by the 3- O-methylfluorescein phosphatase assay (nmol·mg−1·h−1) was not different between conditions prior to exercise (85.2 ± 3.3 or 86.0 ± 3.9), at 30 min (91.4 ± 4.7 vs. 91.9 ± 4.1) and at fatigue (92.8 ± 4.3 vs. 100 ± 5.0) but was higher ( P < 0.05) in G at 90 min (86.7 ± 4.2 vs. 109 ± 4.1). Na+-K+-ATPase content (βmax) measured by the vanadate facilitated [3H]ouabain-binding technique (pmol/g wet wt) although elevated ( P < 0.05) by exercise (0<30, 90, and fatigue) was not different between NG and G. At 60 and 90 min of exercise, blood glucose was higher ( P < 0.05) in G compared with NG. The G condition also resulted in higher ( P < 0.05) serum insulin at similar time points to glucose and lower ( P < 0.05) plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine at 90 min of exercise and at fatigue. These results suggest that G results in an increase in Vmax by mechanisms that are unclear.


2006 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Duhamel ◽  
H. J. Green ◽  
J. G. Perco ◽  
J. Ouyang

The effects of exercise and diet on sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-cycling properties in female vastus lateralis muscle were investigated in two groups of women following four different conditions. The conditions were 4 days of a low-carbohydrate (Lo CHO) and glycogen-depleting exercise plus a Lo CHO diet (Ex + Lo CHO) ( experiment 2) and 4 days of normal CHO (Norm CHO) and glycogen-depleting exercise plus Norm CHO (Ex + Norm CHO) ( experiment 1). Peak aerobic power (V̇o2peak) was 38.1 ± 1.4 (SE); n = 9 and 35.6 ± 1.4 ml·kg−1·min−1; n = 9, respectively. Sarcoplasmic reticulum properties measured in vitro in homogenates (μmol·g protein−1·min−1) indicated exercise-induced reductions ( P < 0.05) in maximal Ca2+-ATPase activity (0 > 30, 60 min > fatigue), Ca2+ uptake (0 > 30 > 60 min, fatigue), and Ca2+ release, both phase 1 (0, 30 > 60 min, fatigue) and phase 2 (0 > 30, 60 min, fatigue; 30 min > fatigue) in Norm CHO. Exercise was without effect in altering the Hill slope ( nH), defined as the slope of relationship between Ca2+-ATPase activity and Ca2+ concentration. No differences were observed between Norm CHO and Ex+Norm CHO. Compared with Norm CHO, Lo CHO resulted in a lower ( P < 0.05) Ca2+ uptake, phase 1 Ca2+ release (30 min), and nH. Ex + Lo CHO resulted in a greater ( P < 0.05) Ca2+ uptake and nH compared with Lo CHO. The results demonstrate that Lo CHO alone can disrupt SR Ca2+ cycling and that, with the exception of Ca2+ release, a glycogen-depleting session of exercise before Lo CHO can reverse the effects.


2005 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Aughey ◽  
C. J. Gore ◽  
A. G. Hahn ◽  
A. P. Garnham ◽  
S. A. Clark ◽  
...  

Athletes commonly attempt to enhance performance by training in normoxia but sleeping in hypoxia [live high and train low (LHTL)]. However, chronic hypoxia reduces muscle Na+-K+-ATPase content, whereas fatiguing contractions reduce Na+-K+-ATPase activity, which each may impair performance. We examined whether LHTL and intense exercise would decrease muscle Na+-K+-ATPase activity and whether these effects would be additive and sufficient to impair performance or plasma K+ regulation. Thirteen subjects were randomly assigned to two fitness-matched groups, LHTL ( n = 6) or control (Con, n = 7). LHTL slept at simulated moderate altitude (3,000 m, inspired O2 fraction = 15.48%) for 23 nights and lived and trained by day under normoxic conditions in Canberra (altitude ∼600 m). Con lived, trained, and slept in normoxia. A standardized incremental exercise test was conducted before and after LHTL. A vastus lateralis muscle biopsy was taken at rest and after exercise, before and after LHTL or Con, and analyzed for maximal Na+-K+-ATPase activity [K+-stimulated 3- O-methylfluorescein phosphatase (3- O-MFPase)] and Na+-K+-ATPase content ([3H]ouabain binding sites). 3- O-MFPase activity was decreased by −2.9 ± 2.6% in LHTL ( P < 0.05) and was depressed immediately after exercise ( P < 0.05) similarly in Con and LHTL (−13.0 ± 3.2 and −11.8 ± 1.5%, respectively). Plasma K+ concentration during exercise was unchanged by LHTL; [3H]ouabain binding was unchanged with LHTL or exercise. Peak oxygen consumption was reduced in LHTL ( P < 0.05) but not in Con, whereas exercise work was unchanged in either group. Thus LHTL had a minor effect on, and incremental exercise reduced, Na+-K+-ATPase activity. However, the small LHTL-induced depression of 3- O-MFPase activity was insufficient to adversely affect either K+ regulation or total work performed.


2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (7) ◽  
pp. 643-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
T A Duhamel ◽  
H J Green ◽  
J G Perco ◽  
J Ouyang

This study investigated the effects of prolonged exercise on muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ cycling properties and the metabolic responses with and without a session of exercise designed to reduce muscle glycogen reserves while on a normal carbohydrate (CHO) diet. Eight untrained males (VO2peak = 3.81 ± 0.12 L/min, mean ± SE) performed a standardized cycle-to-fatigue at 55% VO2peak while on a normal CHO diet (Norm CHO) and 4 days following prolonged exercise while on a normal CHO diet (Ex+Norm CHO). Compared to rest, exercise in Norm CHO to fatigue resulted in significant reductions (p < 0.05) in Ca2+ uptake (3.17 ± 0.21 vs. 2.47 ± 0.12 µmol·(g protein)–1·min–1), maximal Ca2+ ATPase activity (Vmax, 152 ± 12 vs. 119 ± 9 µmol·(g protein)–1·min–1) and both phase 1 (15.1 ± 0.98 vs. 13.1 ± 0.28 µmol·(g protein)–1·min–1) and phase 2 (6.56 ± 0.33 vs. 4.91 ± 0.28 µmol·(g protein)–1·min–1) Ca2+ release in vastus lateralis muscle. No differences were observed between Norm CHO and Ex-Norm CHO in the response of these properties to exercise. Compared with Norm CHO, Ex+Norm CHO resulted in higher (p < 0.05) resting Ca2+ uptake (3.17 ± 0.21 vs. 3.49 ± 0.24 µmol·(g protein)·min–1 and higher ionophore ratio, defined as the ratio of Vmax measured with and without the Ca2+-ionophore A23187, (2.3 ± 0.3 vs. 4.4 ± 0.3 µmol·(g protein)·min–1) at fatigue. No differences were observed between conditions in the concentration of muscle glycogen, the high-energy phosphates (ATP and PCr), or metabolites (Pi, Cr, and lactate). Ex+Norm CHO also failed to modify the exercise-induced changes in CHO and fat oxidation. We conclude that prolonged exercise to fatigue performed 4 days following glycogen-depleting exercise while on a normal CHO diet elevates resting Ca2+ uptake and prevents increases in SR membrane permeability to Ca2+ as measured by the ionophore ratio. Key words: Ca2+ cycling, glycogen depletion, contractile activity, recovery.


1994 ◽  
Vol 266 (1) ◽  
pp. H68-H78 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Cory ◽  
R. W. Grange ◽  
M. E. Houston

The loss of load-sensitive relaxation observed in the pressure-overloaded heart may reflect a strategy of slowed cytosolic Ca2+ uptake to yield a prolongation of the active state of the muscle and a decrease in cellular energy expenditure. A decrease in the potential of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) to resequester cytosolic Ca2+ during diastole could contribute to this attenuated load sensitivity. To test this hypothesis, both in vitro mechanical function of anterior papillary muscles and the SR Ca2+ sequestration potential of female guinea pig left ventricle were compared in cardiac hypertrophy (Hyp) and sham-operated (Sham) groups. Twenty-one days of pressure overload induced by coarctation of the suprarenal, subdiaphragmatic aorta resulted in a 36% increase in left ventricular mass in the Hyp. Peak isometric tension, the rate of isometric tension development, and the maximal rates of isometric and isotonic relaxation were significantly reduced in Hyp. Load-sensitive relaxation were significantly reduced in Hyp. Load-sensitive relaxation quantified by the ratio of a rapid loading to unloading force step in isotonically contracting papillary muscle was reduced 50% in Hyp muscles. Maximum activity of SR Ca(2+)-adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) measured under optimal conditions (37 degrees C; saturating Ca2+) was unaltered, but at low free Ca2+ concentrations (0.65 microM), it was decreased by 43% of the Sham response. Bivariate regression analysis revealed a significant (r = 0.84; P = 0.009) relationship between the decrease in SR Ca(2+)-ATPase activity and the loss of load-sensitive relaxation after aortic coarctation. Stimulation of the SR Ca(2+)-ATPase by the catalytic subunit of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate-dependent protein kinase resulted in a 2.6-fold increase for Sham but only a 1.6-fold increase for Hyp. Semiquantitative Western blot radioimmunoassays revealed that the changes in SR Ca(2+)-ATPase activity were not due to decreases in the content of the Ca(2+)-ATPase protein or phospholamban. Our data directly implicate a role for decreased SR function in attenuated load sensitivity. A purposeful downregulation of SR Ca2+ uptake likely results from a qualitative rather than a quantitative change in the ATPase and possibly one of its key regulators, phospholamban.


1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (8) ◽  
pp. 1154-1164 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. R. Chin ◽  
H. J Green ◽  
F. Grange ◽  
J. Dossett-Mercer ◽  
P. J. O'Brien

The role of prolonged electrical stimulation on sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+sequestration measured in vitro and muscle energy status in fast white and red skeletal muscle was investigated. Fatigue was induced by 90 min intermittent 10-Hz stimulation of rat gastrocnemius muscle, which led to reductions (p < 0.05) in ATP, creatine phosphate, and glycogen of 16, 55, and 49%, respectively, compared with non-stimulated muscle. Stimulation also resulted in increases (p < 0.05) in muscle lactate, creatine, Pi, total ADP, total AMP, IMP, and inosine. Calculated free ADP (ADPf) and free AMP (AMPf) were elevated 3- and 15-fold, respectively. No differences were found in the metabolic response between tissues obtained from the white (WG) and red (RG) regions of the gastrocnemius. No significant reductions in SR Ca2+ATPase activity were observed in homogenate (HOM) or a crude SR fraction (CM) from WG or RG muscle following exercise. Maximum Ca2+uptake in HOM and CM preparations was similar in control (C) and stimulated (St) muscles. However, Ca2+uptake at 400 nM free Ca2+was significantly reduced in CM from RG (0.108 ± 0.04 to 0.076 ± 0.02 μmol∙mg−1protein∙min−1in RG–C and RG–St, respectively). Collectively, these data suggest that reductions in muscle energy status are dissociated from changes in SR Ca2+ATPase activity in vitro but are related to Ca2+uptake at physiological free [Ca2+] in fractionated SR from highly oxidative muscle. Dissociation of SR Ca2+ATPase activity from Ca2+uptake may reflect differences in the mechanisms evaluated by these techniques.Key words: sarcoplasmic reticulum, contractile activity, Ca2+sequestration, energy status, red and white gastrocnemius.


2005 ◽  
Vol 289 (1) ◽  
pp. R266-R274 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Petersen ◽  
K. T. Murphy ◽  
R. J. Snow ◽  
J. A. Leppik ◽  
R. J. Aughey ◽  
...  

We investigated whether depressed muscle Na+-K+-ATPase activity with exercise reflected a loss of Na+-K+-ATPase units, the time course of its recovery postexercise, and whether this depressed activity was related to increased Na+-K+-ATPase isoform gene expression. Fifteen subjects performed fatiguing, knee extensor exercise at ∼40% maximal work output per contraction. A vastus lateralis muscle biopsy was taken at rest, fatigue, 3 h, and 24 h postexercise and analyzed for maximal Na+-K+-ATPase activity via 3- O-methylfluorescein phosphatase (3- O-MFPase) activity, Na+-K+-ATPase content via [3H]ouabain binding sites, and Na+-K+-ATPase α1-, α2-, α3-, β1-, β2- and β3-isoform mRNA expression by real-time RT-PCR. Exercise [352 (SD 267) s] did not affect [3H]ouabain binding sites but decreased 3- O-MFPase activity by 10.7 (SD 8)% ( P < 0.05), which had recovered by 3 h postexercise, without further change at 24 h. Exercise elevated α1-isoform mRNA by 1.5-fold at fatigue ( P < 0.05). This increase was inversely correlated with the percent change in 3- O-MFPase activity from rest to fatigue (%Δ3- O-MFPaserest-fatigue) ( r = −0.60, P < 0.05). The average postexercise (fatigue, 3 h, 24 h) α1-isoform mRNA was increased 1.4-fold ( P < 0.05) and approached a significant inverse correlation with %Δ3- O-MFPaserest-fatigue ( r = −0.56, P = 0.08). Exercise elevated α2-isoform mRNA at fatigue 2.5-fold ( P < 0.05), which was inversely correlated with %Δ3- O-MFPaserest-fatigue ( r = −0.60, P = 0.05). The average postexercise α2-isoform mRNA was increased 2.2-fold ( P < 0.05) and was inversely correlated with the %Δ3- O-MFPaserest-fatigue ( r = −0.68, P < 0.05). Nonsignificant correlations were found between %Δ3- O-MFPaserest-fatigue and other isoforms. Thus acute exercise transiently decreased Na+-K+-ATPase activity, which was correlated with increased Na+-K+-ATPase gene expression. This suggests a possible signal-transduction role for depressed muscle Na+-K+-ATPase activity with exercise.


2002 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 1650-1659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve F. Fraser ◽  
Jia L. Li ◽  
Michael F. Carey ◽  
Xiao N. Wang ◽  
Termboon Sangkabutra ◽  
...  

This study investigated whether fatiguing dynamic exercise depresses maximal in vitro Na+-K+-ATPase activity and whether any depression is attenuated with chronic training. Eight untrained (UT), eight resistance-trained (RT), and eight endurance-trained (ET) subjects performed a quadriceps fatigue test, comprising 50 maximal isokinetic contractions (180°/s, 0.5 Hz). Muscle biopsies (vastus lateralis) were taken before and immediately after exercise and were analyzed for maximal in vitro Na+-K+-ATPase (K+-stimulated 3- O-methylfluoroscein phosphatase) activity. Resting samples were analyzed for [3H]ouabain binding site content, which was 16.6 and 18.3% higher ( P < 0.05) in ET than RT and UT, respectively (UT 311 ± 41, RT 302 ± 52, ET 357 ± 29 pmol/g wet wt). 3- O-methylfluoroscein phosphatase activity was depressed at fatigue by −13.8 ± 4.1% ( P < 0.05), with no differences between groups (UT −13 ± 4, RT −9 ± 6, ET −22 ± 6%). During incremental exercise, ET had a lower ratio of rise in plasma K+ concentration to work than UT ( P < 0.05) and tended ( P = 0.09) to be lower than RT (UT 18.5 ± 2.3, RT 16.2 ± 2.2, ET 11.8 ± 0.4 nmol · l−1 · J−1). In conclusion, maximal in vitro Na+-K+-ATPase activity was depressed with fatigue, regardless of training state, suggesting that this may be an important determinant of fatigue.


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