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About 40 to 50% of man’s weight is contributed by skeletal muscle,1. Muscle is a highly differentiated tissue, and as such is metabolically less complex than many other tissues. It has a contractile function in which ATP plays a major role. At rest there is a steady loss of some purines from muscle,2, while during exercise release of inosine and hypoxanthine in particular, increases markedly,3. A mechanism or mechanisms must exist to replace the purine lost from the tissue.
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Tully, E.R., Sheehan, T.G. (1980). Purine Metabolism in Rat Skeletal Muscle. In: Rapado, A., Watts, R.W.E., De Bruyn, C.H.M.M. (eds) Purine Metabolism in Man—III. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 122B. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8559-2_3
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