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Chronic intermittent hypoxia and incremental cycling exercise independently depress muscle in vitro maximal Na⁺-K⁺-ATPase activity in well-trained athletes

¹Muscle, Ions and Exercise Group, School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance, Centre for Aging, Rehabilitation, Exercise and Sport, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne; ²Australian Institute of Sport, Adelaide; ³Department of Physiology and Applied Nutrition, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra; ⁴School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne; and ⁵Centre for Sports Studies, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

Submitted 12 December 2003 ; accepted in final form 17 March 2004

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.

sodium-potassium pump; potassium; muscle fatigue; altitude

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