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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 258: E485-E491, 1990;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 258, Issue 3 E485-E491, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Free amino acids in muscle: effect of muscle fiber population and denervation

J. Turinsky and C. L. Long
Department of Physiology, Albany Medical College, New York 12208.

One hindlimb of each rat was denervated by sectioning the sciatic nerve. Three days later, soleus, plantaris, and gastrocnemius muscles of the sham hindlimb and the contralateral denervated hindlimb were excised and analyzed for intracellular concentrations of 23 free amino acids and the dipeptides carnosine and anserine. Compared with the sham soleus (slow-twitch) muscle, the sham plantaris and gastrocnemius (fast-twitch) muscles showed 57-81% lower concentrations of histidine, glutamine, glutamate, aspartate, and serine and also 32-78% lower levels of taurine, citrulline, phosphoserine, and ornithine. On the other hand the fast-twitch muscles exhibited 31% higher concentrations of free glycine and alanine and 113-127% higher levels of carnosine and anserine than the soleus muscle. The denervation caused greater changes in soleus muscle than in the other two muscles. The denervation-induced changes in soleus muscle included 38-87% increases in concentrations of free valine, leucine, isoleucine, and glutamate associated with 21-56% decreases in the levels of glutamine, glycine, aspartate, serine, alanine, and citrulline. It is concluded that both muscle fiber population and muscle denervation have an independent effect on the intracellular concentrations of free amino acids in muscles.


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