physiology S2 Y1 Flashcards
What happens when upper limit of exercise is reached?
Slowing, skill and coordination deteriorates
What happens when glucose reacts with oxygen?
Activation is overcome by enzymes and body heat - the energy is then conserved within activated molecules
5 energy yielding pathways in exercise and amount of time they supply energy for exercise?
- ATP –> ADP + Pi (1-2 seconds)
- Phosphagen system: PCr + ADP –> ATP + Cr (10-15 seconds)
- Glycolysis (15 seconds - 3-5 minutes)
- Krebs cycle (CAC) (2-3 minutes onwards)
- Oxidative phosphorylation (“ “)
What limits ATP synthesis?
Substrate
Phosphagen system:
- What does phosphocreatine (PCr) act as?
- What does PCr do?
- Energy reservoir
- Recycles ATP for further muscle contractions
Glycolysis:
- Reaction?
- What temporarily accepts H?
- What is yielded?
- Difference between lactate and lactic acid?
- Glucose into pyruvate or lactate
- NAD
- 2 ATP
- Lactate has COO- group, lactic acid has COOH
Krebs cycle:
- What can it fuel indefinitely?
- What is released?
- Low-intensity exercise
- CO2, H, H+, NADH, FADH2, 2 ATP
Electron transport chain:
- What provide H+ and e-?
- What creates conc. gradient for electrons to move from complex to complex?
- How does it generate energy?
- FADH2 and NADH
- Active pumping of H+
- Electric potential is a form of stored energy
Different ways pyruvate is generated? (3)
- Fats –> glycerol +fatty acids –> Beta-oxidation –> pyruvate
- Carbohydrates –> glucose –> glycolysis –> pyruvate
- Protein –> amino acids –> deamination –> pyrvuate
Why does sprinting rapidly decrease power output?
- ATP is used in 2b and 2a muscle fibres, PCr depletes, lactate accumulates
How is sprinting performance improved?
Creatine supplementation - increase Cr in muscles so PCr depletion is delayed, increases rate of ATP and PCr re-synthesis, lowers lactate and dependence on glycolysis reduces, increases work output
What happens if someone exercises a part of their body for a prolonged period after not exercising it regularly?
High lactate, lower muscle pH, greater K+ release, poorer performance than regular exersisers
Running:
- % aerobic, % anaerobic for 1.5km?
- How is oxygen liberated calculated?
- How is oxygen debt calculated?
- 70-80, 20-30
- = VO2max x minutes
- = oxygen required - oxygen liberated
How can middle-distance performance be improved + how? (2)
- Carbohydrate supplementation - improves performance time, increases work output BUT increases lactate
- Bicarbonate supplementation - increases intracellular pH, H+ then leaves muscle cells faster
What does intracellular acidification cause?
Reduced sensitivity of contractile apparatus to Ca2+
How does substrate use vary with exercise intensity?
Blood glucose and muscle glycogen used more at higher intensity, fat used at lower exercise
- What is carbohydrate loading?
- 4 results?
- Athletes eating carbs before/during exercise to delay use of other fuel sources
- Plasma glucose spared
- Less fat oxidised
- Less protein oxidised
- Exercise intensity maintained
Why do glycolytic intermediates have at least one ionised phosphate group?
To keep them in the cytosol (highly ionised groups cannot bypass membrane)
What is substrate-level phosphorylation?
ADP phosphorylated by substrate
Lactate:
- How is it formed?
- 2 pathways it can follow during lactate shuttling?
- What is it used in the liver for?
- Pyruvate gaining 2 H atoms from NADH and H+
- Enters bloodstream or converted back to pyruvate
- As a precursor for glucose formation
2 types of proteins for ETC?
- Those that mediate the series of reactions that cause transfer of hydrogen ions to oxygen (can be cytochromes)
- Those that couple the energy released by these reactions with the synthesis of ATP
End product of ETC?
Water
Why does FADH2 contribute less to chemiosmosis than NADH?
Enters ETC later on
What product from triglyceride hydrolysis is used to synthesise glucose?
Glycerol