Abstract
Muscle’s primary function is contraction, but thanks to its relatively great mass and protein content, it serves several vital metabolic roles. It is a most important buffer to acid-base alterations and even changes its own metabolic reactions as a response to increases or decreases in hydrogen ion concentration. It also serves as a buffer to other ion changes, such as potassium or magnesium. Less emphasized has been its role as the body’s principie nitrogen reservoir, or more accurately, as the body’s depot of substrate for gluconeogenesis. This brief note addresses itself to this last point.
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Cahill, G.F. (1971). Metabolic Role of Muscle. In: Pernow, B., Saltin, B. (eds) Muscle Metabolism During Exercise. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4609-8_10
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