Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 76, Issue 4 1575-1582, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Training partially reverses skeletal muscle metabolic abnormalities during exercise in heart failure

J. R. Stratton, J. F. Dunn, S. Adamopoulos, G. J. Kemp, A. J. Coats and B. Rajagopalan
Department of Medicine, Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.

Using 31P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy during and after exercise, we studied whether forearm metabolic responses to exercise were improved by 1 mo of training in 10 males with heart failure. In the control (untrained) arm, there were no changes in any of the measured variables. In the trained arm, maximal voluntary contraction increased 6% (P = 0.05). During incremental exercise, duration increased 19% (P < 0.05) and submaximal responses improved for pH (6.78 +/- 0.13 pretraining vs. 6.85 +/- 0.17 posttraining; P < 0.01) and PCr/(PCr+Pi) (where PCr is phosphocreatine; 0.48 +/- 0.09 pretraining vs. 0.52 +/- 0.07 posttraining; P < 0.01). The PCr resynthesis rate increased by 48% (P < 0.01), and estimated effective maximal rate of mitochondrial ATP synthesis increased by 37% (P < 0.05). Endurance exercise duration increased by 67% (P < 0.01), and submaximal levels of PCr/(PCr+Pi) (P < 0.05) and pH (P = 0.07) improved. The PCr resynthesis rate (P < 0.01) and the effective maximal rate of mitochondrial ATP synthesis (P < 0.05) also improved. These findings document that impaired oxidative capacity of skeletal muscle can be improved by local muscle training in heart failure, which is compatible with the hypothesis that a part of the abnormality present in heart failure may be due to inactivity.

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