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ArticleScientific reports2021

Metabolomic analysis of skeletal muscle before and after strenuous exercise to fatigue.

Hajime Ohmura, Kazutaka Mukai, Yuji Takahashi, Toshiyuki Takahashi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hajime OhmuraSports Science Division, Equine Research Institute, Japan Racing Association, 1400-4 Shiba, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi, 329-0412, Japan. hajime@equinst.go.jp.
Kazutaka MukaiSports Science Division, Equine Research Institute, Japan Racing Association, 1400-4 Shiba, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi, 329-0412, Japan.
Yuji TakahashiSports Science Division, Equine Research Institute, Japan Racing Association, 1400-4 Shiba, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi, 329-0412, Japan.
Toshiyuki TakahashiSports Science Division, Equine Research Institute, Japan Racing Association, 1400-4 Shiba, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi, 329-0412, Japan.
Japan Racing Association · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thoroughbreds have high maximal oxygen consumption and show hypoxemia and hypercapnia during intense exercise, suggesting that the peripheral environment in skeletal muscle may be severe. Changes in metabolites following extreme alterations in the muscle environment in horses after exercise may provide useful evidence. We compared the muscle metabolites before and after supramaximal exercise to fatigue in horses. Six well-trained horses ran until exhaustion in incremental exercise tests. Biopsy samples were obtained from the gluteus medius muscle before and immediately after exercise for capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry analysis. In the incremental exercise test, the total running time and speed of the last step were 10.4 ± 1.3 (mean ± standard deviation) min and 12.7 ± 0.5 m/s, respectively. Of 73 metabolites, 18 and 11 were significantly increased and decreased after exercise, respectively. The heat map of the hierarchical cluster analysis of muscle metabolites showed that changes in metabolites were clearly distinguishable before and after exercise. Strenuous exercise increased many metabolites in the glycolytic pathway and the tricarboxylic acid cycle in skeletal muscle. Targeted metabolomic analysis of skeletal muscle may clarify the intramuscular environment caused by exercise and explain the response of working muscles to strenuous exercise that induces hypoxemia and hypercapnia in Thoroughbred horses.

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AnimalsFemaleHorsesMaleMetabolomicsMuscle FatigueMuscle, SkeletalOxygen ConsumptionPhysical Conditioning, Animal

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PMID34045613
PMCPMC8160181
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