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To investigate the splitting of the inorganic phosphate (Pi) peak during exercise and recovery, a time-resolved 31phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P-MRS) technique was used. Seven healthy young sedentary male subjects performed knee flexion exercise in the prone position inside a 2.1-T magnet, with the surface coil for 31P-MRS being placed on the biceps femoris muscle. After a 1-min warm-up without loading, the exercise intensity was increased by 0.41 W at 15-s intervals until exhaustion, followed by a 5-min recovery period. The 31P-MRS were recorded every 5 s during the rest-exercise-recovery sequence. Computer-aided contour analysis and pixel imaging of the Pi and phosphocreatine peaks were performed. Five of the seven subjects showed two distinct Pi peaks during exercise, suggesting two different pH distributions in exercising muscle (high pH and low pH region). In these five subjects, the high-pH increased rapidly just after the onset of exercise, while the low-pH peak increased gradually approximately 60 s after the onset of exercise. During recovery, the disappearance of the high-pH peak was more rapid than that of the low-pH peak. These findings suggest that our method 31P-MRS provides a simple approach for studying the kinetics of the Pi peak and intramuscular pH during exercise and recovery.
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Yoshida, T., Watari, H. Exercise-induced splitting of the inorganic phosphate peak: investigation by time-resolved 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Eur J Appl Physiol 69, 465–473 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00239861
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