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| | [Frontiers in Bioscience 3, d1011-1027, September 15, 1998] |
 | | The increase in lactate that results from the initial burst of glycogenolysis is followed by a decrease in muscle and blood lactate levels, despite continued muscle contractile activity, as a result of the marked slowing of glycogenolysis (151-154). |
 | | It was thought that the rate of glycogenolysis is determined by the frequency of muscle contraction, with release of Ca from the SR during each excitation-contraction coupling resulting in conversion of inactive phosphorylase b to active phosphorylase a and a burst of glycogenolysis (155,157,159,164-166). |
 | | It, therefore, seems probable that both the smaller initial burst of glycogenolysis and the slower rate of glycogen breakdown during continuous contractile activity is explained by the lower level of inorganic phosphate attained in trained muscles. |
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