Title :

Effect of dietary nitrate supplementation on tolerance to supramaximal intensity intermittent exercise

Author(s) :

Aucouturier, Julien [Auteur]
Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369 - ULR 4488 [URePSSS]
Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - EA 7369
Boissière, Julien [Auteur]
Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369 - ULR 4488 [URePSSS]
Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369
Pawlak-Chaouch, Mehdi [Auteur]
Cuvelier, Gregory [Auteur]
Gamelin, Francois-Xavier [Auteur]
Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369 - ULR 4488 [URePSSS]
Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369

Journal title :

Nitric oxide

Abbreviated title :

Nitric Oxide-Biol. Chem.

Volume number :

49

Pages :

16-25

Publication date :

2015-09-15

ISSN :

1089-8603

English keyword(s) :

Tolerance
Nitrate
Exercise

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

Dietary nitrate (NO3(-)) supplementation has been shown to increase exercise tolerance and improve oxidative efficiency during aerobic exercise in healthy subjects. We tested the hypothesis that a 3-day supplementation in ...
Show more >Dietary nitrate (NO3(-)) supplementation has been shown to increase exercise tolerance and improve oxidative efficiency during aerobic exercise in healthy subjects. We tested the hypothesis that a 3-day supplementation in beetroot juice (BJ) rich in NO3(-) would improve the tolerance to supramaximal intensity intermittent exercise consisting of 15-s exercise periods at 170% of the maximal aerobic power interspersed with 30-s passive recovery periods. The number of repetitions completed before reaching volitional exhaustion was significantly higher in the BJ than in the placebo condition (26.1 ± 10.7 versus 21.8 ± 8.0 respectively, P < 0.05). In contrast to previous findings during exercise performed at intensity below the peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak), oxygen uptake (VO2) was unaffected (BJ: 2735 ± 345 mL kg(-1) min(-1) vs. placebo: 2787 ± 346 mL kg(-1) min(-1), NS). However, the Area Under the Curve for microvascular total hemoglobin (AUC-THb) in the vastus lateralis muscle assessed by near infrared spectroscopy during 3 time-matched repetitions was significantly increased with NO3(-) supplementation (BJ: 9662 ± 1228 a.u. vs. placebo:8178 ± 1589 a.u.; P < 0.05). Thus, increased NO3(-) (BJ: 421.5 ± 107.4 μM vs placebo:39.4 ± 18.0 μM) and NO2(-) (BJ: 441 ± 184 nM vs placebo: 212 ± 119 nM) plasma levels (P < 0.001 for both) are associated with improved muscle microvascular Red Blood Cell (RBC) concentration and O2 delivery during intense exercise, despite no effect on resting femoral artery blood flow, and vascular conductance. Maximal voluntary force during an isometric leg extensor exercise, and blood lactate levels were also unaffected by NO3(-) supplementation. To conclude, dietary NO3(-) supplementation enhances tolerance to exercise at supramaximal intensity, with increased microvascular total RBC concentration in the working muscle, in the absence of effect on contractile function and resting hemodynamic parameters.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale
Univ. Artois
Université de Lille

Collections :

• Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport, Santé, Société (URePSSS) - ULR 7369

Research team(s) :

Activité Physique, Muscle, Santé (APMS)

Submission date :

2019-09-24T07:27:58Z