Muscle metabolism during exercise using phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in adolescents
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 70 (4), 301-304
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00865026
Abstract
Very little has been reported on muscle energetics during exercise in adolescents. This is attributable to the difficulty of subjecting children to muscle biopsy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of muscle metabolism during exercisein vivo in adolescents by comparing firstly, with adults and secondly, the differences resulting from physical activity using phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance (31PNMR) spectroscopy. The subjects were boys aged 12 to 15 years, comprising 21 trained boys and 23 control boys, and 6 adults controls. The ratio of phosphocreatine (PCr):(PCr + Pi), where Pi is inorganic phosphate intracellular pH at exhaustion and the time constant of PCr during recovery were measured in all the subjects using31PNMR. Both groups of children showed higher values of PCr:(PCr + Pi) and intracellular pH at exhaustion than did the adult control group (P < 0.01 orP < 0.05). However, no significant differences were found between the trained boys and the control boys with respect to PCr:(PCr + Pi) and intracellular pH at exhaustion. On the other hand, we found the same values for PCr time constant in all groups. This result suggested no differences of the muscle oxidative capacity between children and adults. We concluded that the adolescents, aged 12 to 15 years in both the trained and control groups, had less glycolytic ability during exercise than the adults.Keywords
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