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1 Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
2 Department of Medical Physiology, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3 Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine, and PET, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
4 Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Exercise Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kari.kalliokoski{at}tyks.fi.
Both tendon and peritendinous tissue show evidence of metabolic activity, but the effect of acute exercise on substrate turnover is unknown. We therefore examined the influence of acute exercise on glucose uptake in the patellar and quadriceps tendons during dynamic exercise in humans. Glucose uptake was measured in five healthy men in the patellar and quadriceps tendons and the quadriceps femoris muscle at rest and during dynamic knee-extension exercise (25 W) using positron emission tomography and [18F]-FDG. Glucose uptake index was calculated by dividing the tissue activity with blood activity of [18F]-FDG. Exercise increased glucose uptake index by 77 % in the patellar tendon (from 0.30±0.09 to 0.51±0.16, p=0.03), by 106 % in the quadriceps tendon (from 0.37±0.15 to 0.75±0.36, p=0.02), and by 15-fold in the quadriceps femoris muscle (from 0.31±0.11 to 4.5±1.7, p=0.005). The exercise-induced increase in the glucose uptake in the neither tendon correlated with the increase in glucose uptake in the quadriceps muscle (r=-0.10, p=0.87 for the patellar tendon and r=-0.30, p=0.62 for the quadriceps tendon). These results show that tendon glucose uptake is increased during exercise. However, the increase in tendon glucose uptake is less pronounced than in muscle and the increases are uncorrelated. Thus, tendon glucose uptake is likely to be regulated by mechanisms independently of those regulating skeletal muscle glucose uptake.
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