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Regulation of muscle potassium: exercise performance, fatigue and health implications
Abstract
This review integrates from the single muscle fibre to exercising human the current understanding of the role of skeletal muscle for whole-body potassium (K+) regulation, and specifically the regulation of skeletal muscle [K+]. We describe the K+ transport proteins in skeletal muscle and how they contribute to, or modulate, K+ disturbances during exercise. Muscle and plasma K+ balance are markedly altered during and after high-intensity dynamic exercise (including sports), static contractions and ischaemia, which have implications for skeletal and cardiac muscle contractile performance. Moderate elevations of plasma and interstitial [K+] during exercise have beneficial effects on multiple physiological systems. Severe reductions of the trans-sarcolemmal K+ gradient likely contributes to muscle and whole-body fatigue, i.e. impaired exercise performance. Chronic or acute changes of arterial plasma [K+] (hyperkalaemia or hypokalaemia) have dangerous health implications for cardiac function. The current mechanisms to explain how raised extracellular [K+] impairs cardiac and skeletal muscle function are discussed, along with the latest cell physiology research explaining how calcium, β-adrenergic agonists, insulin or glucose act as clinical treatments for hyperkalaemia to protect the heart and skeletal muscle in vivo. Finally, whether these agents can also modulate K+-induced muscle fatigue are evaluated.
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- Authors
- Lindinger, M. I., & Cairns, S. P.
- Affiliations
- Auckland University of Technology (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Cairns, Simeon P.
- Venue
- European Journal of Applied Physiology
- Published
- 2021-01-04
- Volume
- 121
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 721-748
- ISSN
- 0020-9376 (ISSN-L)
- 1439-6319
- 1439-6327
- OpenAlex
- W3119220887
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 262
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 6
- FWCI
- 1.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- European Journal of Applied Physiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Nephrology › Potassium and Related Disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Keywords
- physical activity, muscle fatigue, hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, plasma potassium, ischemia, cardiac function, exercise performance, calcium, beta-adrenergic agonists, insulin, glucose
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Potassium, Exercise, Muscle, Skeletal, Muscle Fatigue
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