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Glucose Metabolism During Exercise in Man

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Muscle Metabolism During Exercise

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 11))

Abstract

It is generally recognized that in man, blood glucose is taken up to some extent by muscle during physical exercise, but the quantitative importance of its contribution to muscle substrate utilization has not been defined and is the subject of some controversy. Recent studies of glucose uptake by exercising muscle, based on determinations of a - v differences with and without simultaneous blood flow measurements, have indicated both considerable glucose uptake (15, 17, 18, 23) and a virtual non-utilization of this substrate (1, 2, 19). The a-v differences for glucose are often small and close to the error of the method for glucose analysis and few of the studies have been specifically directed towards defining muscle glucose metabolism. The present study was undertaken in an attempt to characterize the use of blood glucose as a substrate for small and large muscle groups during exercise of differing duration and intensity in postabsorptive man.

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  1. Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institutet at Serafimerlasarettet, Stockholm, Sweden

    J. Wahren, G. Ahlborg, P. Felig & L. Jorfeldt

  2. Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., USA

    J. Wahren, G. Ahlborg, P. Felig & L. Jorfeldt

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  1. Department of Clinical Physiology, Serafimerlasarettet, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Department of Physiology, Gymnastik & Idrottshögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden

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Wahren, J., Ahlborg, G., Felig, P., Jorfeldt, L. (1971). Glucose Metabolism During Exercise in Man. 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_18

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