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Vol. 89, Issue 3, 1072-1078, September 2000

Skeletal muscle oxidative capacity in young and older women and men

Jane A. Kent-Braun and Alexander V. Ng

Magnetic Resonance Unit, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94121

It has been suggested that a decline in skeletal muscle oxidative capacity is a general consequence of aging in humans. However, previous studies have not always controlled for the effects of varying levels of physical activity on muscle oxidative capacity. To test the hypothesis that, when matched for comparable habitual physical activity levels, there would be no age-related decline in the oxidative capacity of a locomotor muscle, the postexercise recovery time of phosphocreatine was compared in the tibialis anterior muscle of young [n = 19; 33.8 ± 4.8 (SD) yr] and older [n = 18; 75.5 ± 4.5 yr] healthy women and men of similar, relatively low, activity levels. The intramuscular metabolic measurements were accomplished by using phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The results indicate that there was no age effect on the postexercise recovery time of phosphocreatine recovery, thus supporting the stated hypothesis. These data suggest that there is no requisite decline in skeletal muscle oxidative capacity with aging in humans, at least through the seventh decade.

physical activity; aging; gender; magnetic resonance spectroscopy


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