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The effect of fatigue was studied on rat skeletal muscle efficiency during maximal dynamic exercise of 10s duration. After the initial 4s of exercise, power output decreased rapidly to 46.2 ± 6.7% (mean ± SD; n=6) after 6s of stimulation and further to 17.5 ± 5.8% in the last contraction. Both the rates of total work output and high-energy phosphate consumption decreased with increasing exercise duration. As a result muscle efficiency was not affected by exercise time in the present experiments. This result indicates that fatigue in severe maximal exercise is induced by a feed-back mechanism, which in the case of high ATP utilisation rates will reduce ATP splitting probably by reducing Ca2+-release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum.
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de Haan, A., Koudijs, J.C.M. & Verburg, E. Absence of an effect of fatigue on muscle efficiency during high-intensity exercise in rat skeletal muscle. Eur J Appl Physiol 72, 570–572 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00242292
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