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Metabolic capacity of individual muscle fibers from different anatomic locations

BW Rosser, BJ Norris and PM Nemeth

Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

We studied muscle fibers by quantitative biochemistry to determine whether metabolic capacity varied among fibers of a given type as a function of their anatomic location. Muscles were selected from both contiguous and diverse anatomic regions within the rats studied. The individual fibers, classified into myosin ATPase fiber types by histochemical means, were assessed for fiber diameters and analyzed for the activities of enzymes representing major energy pathways: malate dehydrogenase (MDH, oxidative), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH, glycolytic), and adenylokinase (AK, high-energy phosphate metabolism). We found that neither the average activities of each of the three enzymes nor the fiber diameters varied in Type I or Type IIa fibers selected from superficial to deep portions of the triceps surae of the hindlimb. However, the IIb fibers in the deep region of this muscle group had significantly greater oxidative capacity, less glycolytic capacity, and smaller diameters than the superficially situated IIb fibers. Type IIa fibers in lateral gastrocnemius, extensor digitorum longus, psoas, diaphragm, biceps brachii, superficial masseter, and superior rectus muscles were highly variable in both diameter and enzyme profiles, with a correlation between MDH activity and fiber diameter. Therefore, our results show that both intermuscular and intramuscular metabolic variations exist in muscle fibers of a given type.

Volume 40, Issue 6, pp. 819-825, 06/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society


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