Abstract
Force declines when muscles are used repeatedly and intensively and a variety of intracellular mechanisms appear to contribute to this muscle fatigue. Intracellular calcium release declines during fatigue and has been shown to contribute to the reduction in force. Three new approaches have helped to define the role of calcium stores to this decline in calcium release. Skinned fibre experiments show that when intracellular phosphate is increased the amount of Ca2+ released from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) declines. Intact fibre experiments show that the size of the calcium store declines during fatigue and recovers on rest. Intact muscles which lack the enzyme creatine kinase, do not exhibit the usual rise of phosphate during fatigue and, under these conditions, the decline of Ca2+ release is absent or delayed. These results can be explained by the "calcium phosphate precipitation" hypothesis. This proposes that if phosphate in the myoplasm rises, it enters the SR and binds to Ca2+ as Ca2+ phosphate. The resultant reduction in free Ca2+ within the SR contributes to the reduced Ca2+ release during fatigue.
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