PMID- 16670154 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060926 LR - 20211203 IS - 0193-1849 (Print) IS - 0193-1849 (Linking) VI - 291 IP - 3 DP - 2006 Sep TI - Carbohydrate ingestion does not alter skeletal muscle AMPK signaling during exercise in humans. PG - E566-73 AB - There is evidence that increasing carbohydrate (CHO) availability during exercise by raising preexercise muscle glycogen levels attenuates the activation of AMPKalpha2 during exercise in humans. Similarly, increasing glucose levels decreases AMPKalpha2 activity in rat skeletal muscle in vitro. We examined the effect of CHO ingestion on skeletal muscle AMPK signaling during exercise in nine active male subjects who completed two 120-min bouts of cycling exercise at 65 +/- 1% V(O2 peak). In a randomized, counterbalanced order, subjects ingested either an 8% CHO solution or a placebo solution during exercise. Compared with the placebo trial, CHO ingestion significantly (P < 0.05) increased plasma glucose levels and tracer-determined glucose disappearance. Exercise-induced increases in muscle-calculated free AMP (17.7- vs. 11.8-fold), muscle lactate (3.3- vs. 1.8-fold), and plasma epinephrine were reduced by CHO ingestion. However, the exercise-induced increases in skeletal muscle AMPKalpha2 activity, AMPKalpha2 Thr(172) phosphorylation and acetyl-CoA Ser(222) phosphorylation, were essentially identical in the two trials. These findings indicate that AMPK activation in skeletal muscle during exercise in humans is not sensitive to changes in plasma glucose levels in the normal range. Furthermore, the rise in plasma epinephrine levels in response to exercise was greatly suppressed by CHO ingestion without altering AMPK signaling, raising the possibility that epinephrine does not directly control AMPK activity during muscle contraction under these conditions in vivo. FAU - Lee-Young, Robert S AU - Lee-Young RS AD - Dept. of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia. FAU - Palmer, Matthew J AU - Palmer MJ FAU - Linden, Kelly C AU - Linden KC FAU - LePlastrier, Kieran AU - LePlastrier K FAU - Canny, Benedict J AU - Canny BJ FAU - Hargreaves, Mark AU - Hargreaves M FAU - Wadley, Glenn D AU - Wadley GD FAU - Kemp, Bruce E AU - Kemp BE FAU - McConell, Glenn K AU - McConell GK LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Randomized Controlled Trial PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20060502 PL - United States TA - Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab JT - American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism JID - 100901226 RN - 0 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Dietary Carbohydrates) RN - 0 (Insulin) RN - 0 (Multienzyme Complexes) RN - 020IUV4N33 (Phosphocreatine) RN - 33X04XA5AT (Lactic Acid) RN - 8L70Q75FXE (Adenosine Triphosphate) RN - 9005-79-2 (Glycogen) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.31 (AMP-Activated Protein Kinases) RN - EC 6.4.1.2 (Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase) RN - X4W3ENH1CV (Norepinephrine) RN - YKH834O4BH (Epinephrine) SB - IM MH - AMP-Activated Protein Kinases MH - Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase/metabolism MH - Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism MH - Adult MH - Blood Glucose/drug effects MH - Carbohydrate Metabolism/drug effects MH - Dietary Carbohydrates/*pharmacology MH - Epinephrine/blood MH - Exercise/*physiology MH - Glycogen/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Insulin/blood MH - Kinetics MH - Lactic Acid/blood/metabolism MH - Lipid Metabolism/drug effects MH - Male MH - Multienzyme Complexes/*metabolism MH - Muscle, Skeletal/*metabolism MH - Norepinephrine/blood MH - Oxidation-Reduction MH - Oxygen Consumption/drug effects/physiology MH - Phosphocreatine/metabolism MH - Phosphorylation/drug effects MH - Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism MH - Pulmonary Gas Exchange/drug effects/physiology EDAT- 2006/05/04 09:00 MHDA- 2006/09/27 09:00 CRDT- 2006/05/04 09:00 PHST- 2006/05/04 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/09/27 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/05/04 09:00 [entrez] AID - 00023.2006 [pii] AID - 10.1152/ajpendo.00023.2006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Sep;291(3):E566-73. doi: 10.1152/ajpendo.00023.2006. Epub 2006 May 2.