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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 261: E168-E176, 1991;
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AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 261, Issue 2 E168-E176, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Influence of fatty acids on ammonia and amino acid flux from active human muscle

T. E. Graham, B. Kiens, M. Hargreaves and E. A. Richter
August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

This study examined the dynamics of ammonia and amino acid exchange of human muscle during prolonged steady-state one-legged exercise at 80% of knee extensor maximal work capacity. Subjects (n = 10) performed leg extensor exercise for 1 h (control series), rested for 40 min while an infusion of Intralipid and heparin was begun, and then exercised the contralateral leg with the identical protocol [free fatty acid (FFA) series]. In the control series, ammonia efflux rose progressively, and 4.4 +/- 0.6 mmol were released in 1 h compared with 2.4 +/- 0.5 mmol (P less than 0.05) in the FFA series. The exercise was associated with large effluxes of total amino acids from the active muscle over the hour (12.8 +/- 4.3 and 10.3 +/- 3.3 mmol for control and FFA, respectively). Glutamine and alanine accounted for 47 and 64% of the efflux for the control and FFA series, respectively, while comparable values for essential amino acids were 24 and 20%. The latter implies that a net muscle protein catabolism was occurring during the exercise. The FFA treatment was associated not only with a reduced muscle ammonia release but also with a decreased (P less than 0.05) arterial concentration of nine amino acids (alanine, methionine, lysine, hydroxyproline, serine, glycine, proline, asparagine, and ornithine). Interpretation is limited due to the treatment order effect, but these data are compatible with the hypothesis that plasma clearance was affected by FFA.


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