PMID- 26701120 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161007 LR - 20161230 IS - 1715-5320 (Electronic) IS - 1715-5312 (Linking) VI - 41 IP - 1 DP - 2016 Jan TI - The interrelationship between muscle oxygenation, muscle activation, and pulmonary oxygen uptake to incremental ramp exercise: influence of aerobic fitness. PG - 55-62 LID - 10.1139/apnm-2015-0261 [doi] AB - We investigated whether muscle and ventilatory responses to incremental ramp exercise would be influenced by aerobic fitness status by means of a cross-sectional study with a large subject population. Sixty-four male students (age: 21.2 +/- 3.2 years) with a heterogeneous peak oxygen uptake (51.9 +/- 6.3 mL.min(-1).kg(-1), range 39.7-66.2 mL.min(-1).kg(-1)) performed an incremental ramp cycle test (20-35 W.min(-1)) to exhaustion. Breath-by-breath gas exchange was recorded, and muscle activation and oxygenation were measured with surface electromyography and near-infrared spectroscopy, respectively. The integrated electromyography (iEMG), mean power frequency (MPF), deoxygenated [hemoglobin and myoglobin] (deoxy[Hb+Mb]), and total[Hb+Mb] responses were set out as functions of work rate and fitted with a double linear function. The respiratory compensation point (RCP) was compared and correlated with the breakpoints (BPs) (as percentage of peak oxygen uptake) in muscle activation and oxygenation. The BP in total[Hb+Mb] (83.2% +/- 3.0% peak oxygen uptake) preceded (P < 0.001) the BP in iEMG (86.7% +/- 4.0% peak oxygen uptake) and MPF (86.3% +/- 4.1% peak oxygen uptake), which in turn preceded (P < 0.01) the BP in deoxy[Hb+Mb] (88.2% +/- 4.5% peak oxygen uptake) and RCP (87.4% +/- 4.5% peak oxygen uptake). Furthermore, the peak oxygen uptake was significantly (P < 0.001) positively correlated to the BPs and RCP, indicating that the BPs in total[Hb+Mb] (r = 0.66; P < 0.001), deoxy[Hb+Mb] (r = 0.76; P < 0.001), iEMG (r = 0.61; P < 0.001), MPF (r = 0.63; P < 0.001), and RCP (r = 0.75; P < 0.001) occurred at a higher percentage of peak oxygen uptake in subjects with a higher peak oxygen uptake. In this study a close relationship between muscle oxygenation, activation, and pulmonary oxygen uptake was found, occurring in a cascade of events. In subjects with a higher aerobic fitness level this cascade occurred at a higher relative intensity. FAU - Boone, Jan AU - Boone J AD - a Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. AD - b Center of Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. FAU - Barstow, Thomas J AU - Barstow TJ AD - c Department of Kinesiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. FAU - Celie, Bert AU - Celie B AD - a Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. FAU - Prieur, Fabrice AU - Prieur F AD - d Laboratoire CIAMS, Equipe MHAPS, Universite Paris Sud-Universite d'Orleans, Orleans, France. FAU - Bourgois, Jan AU - Bourgois J AD - a Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. AD - b Center of Sports Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20151006 PL - Canada TA - Appl Physiol Nutr Metab JT - Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme JID - 101264333 RN - 0 (Hemoglobins) RN - 0 (Myoglobin) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Body Mass Index MH - Cross-Sectional Studies MH - Electromyography MH - Exercise/*physiology MH - Hemoglobins/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Muscle, Skeletal/*metabolism MH - Myoglobin/metabolism MH - Oxygen/*metabolism MH - *Oxygen Consumption MH - *Physical Fitness MH - Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared MH - Young Adult OTO - NOTNLM OT - V̇O2 de crete OT - V̇O2 pulmonaire OT - V̇O2peak OT - activation musculaire OT - critical power OT - muscle activation OT - muscle oxygenation OT - oxygenation musculaire OT - point de compensation respiratoire OT - puissance critique OT - pulmonary V̇O2 OT - respiratory compensation point EDAT- 2015/12/25 06:00 MHDA- 2016/10/08 06:00 CRDT- 2015/12/25 06:00 PHST- 2015/12/25 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/12/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/10/08 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1139/apnm-2015-0261 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Appl Physiol Nutr Metab. 2016 Jan;41(1):55-62. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2015-0261. Epub 2015 Oct 6.