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FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00626
Keywords
isometric contractions; exercise; SWE; ultrasonography; peripheral fatigue; muscle function; muscle compliance
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- Service de Sante des Armees
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The aim of this study was to investigate the time course of the resting vastus lateralis (VL) muscle shear elastic modulus (mu) measured with ultrasound shear-wave elastography during repetition of isometric maximal voluntary contractions (MVCs) of the knee extensors (KE). Fifteen well-trained young males repeated 60 5-s isometric MVCs. Evoked electrical stimulations and the VL mu were measured every ten MVCs at rest. The resting VL mu, significantly decreased (-34.7 +/- 6.7%; P < 0.001) by the end of the fatigue protocol. There was also a 38.4 +/- 12.6 % decrease in MVC after exercise (P < 0.001). The potentiated doublet and single twitch torque amplitudes and properties were significantly modified by the end of exercise (P < 0.001). This study shows the time course of the resting VL mu during the repetition of maximal voluntary fatiguing exercise of the KE muscles. The decrease of the resting VL mu could directly affect the force transmission capabilities accounting for peripheral fatigue.
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