ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2012
Skeletal muscle glycogen content and particle size of distinct subcellular localizations in the recovery period after a high-level soccer match.
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- Influence of Carbohydrate Intake on Different Parameters of Soccer Players' Performance: Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Acute and Residual Soccer Match-Related Fatigue: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Pooled it
- Fueling Soccer Players: A Scoping Review and Audit of Literature Related to Soccer-Specific Guidelines for Carbohydrate Intake.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Performance Adaptations to Intensified Training in Top-Level Football.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Review
- Specific ATPases drive compartmentalized glycogen utilization in rat skeletal muscle.The Journal of general physiology · 2022Article
- Muscle Glycogen in Elite Soccer - A Perspective on the Implication for Performance, Fatigue, and Recovery.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
- Nutritional approaches to counter performance constraints in high-level sports competition.Experimental physiology · 2021Review
- Local Heat Therapy to Accelerate Recovery After Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage.Exercise and sport sciences reviews · 2020Review
- Effects of 120 vs. 60 and 90 g/h Carbohydrate Intake during a Trail Marathon on Neuromuscular Function and High Intensity Run Capacity Recovery.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Protein-Based Supplementation to Enhance Recovery in Team Sports: What is the Evidence?Journal of sports science & medicine · 2019Review
- Muscle variables of importance for physiological performance in competitive football.European journal of applied physiology · 2016Article
- Muscle damage, inflammatory, immune and performance responses to three football games in 1 week in competitive male players.European journal of applied physiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Whole muscle glycogen levels remain low for a prolonged period following a soccer match. The present study was conducted to investigate how this relates to glycogen content and particle size in distinct subcellular localizations. Seven high-level male soccer players had a vastus lateralis muscle biopsy collected immediately after and 24, 48, 72 and 120 h after a competitive soccer match. Transmission electron microscopy was used to estimate the subcellular distribution of glycogen and individual particle size. During the first day of recovery, glycogen content increased by ~60% in all subcellular localizations, but during the subsequent second day of recovery glycogen content located within the myofibrils (Intramyofibrillar glycogen, a minor deposition constituting 10-15% of total glycogen) did not increase further compared with an increase in subsarcolemmal glycogen (-7 vs. +25%, respectively, P = 0.047). Conversely, from the second to the fifth day of recovery, glycogen content increased (53%) within the myofibrils compared to no change in subsarcolemmal or intermyofibrillar glycogen (P < 0.005). Independent of location, increment in particle size preceded increment in number of particles. Intriguingly, average particle size decreased; however, in the period from 3 to 5 days after the match. These findings suggest that glycogen storage in skeletal muscle is influenced by subcellular localization-specific mechanisms, which account for an increase in number of glycogen particles located within the myofibrils in the period from 2 to 5 days after the soccer match.
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