在長時間高強度游泳運動造成肌肉肝醋或少後，如泉有充分的碳水4匕合物補充肌肉的肝醋濃度會逐漸達到超補狀態。由於先前此現�發生的原因並不清楚，因此本研究的首要目的鳥觀察是否此超補現象與運動後在碳水4匕合物補充下肌肉調整葡萄糖運輸蛋白GLUT4的表現有關。在動物藉由游泳運動消耗肝醋後，紅肌(redgastrocnemius)與白肌(white gastrocnemius)的肝睡於90 分鐘內已回補並恢復正常水準。五小時內兩種肌肉均已形成明顯的肝醋超補現象。在紅肌上GLUT4蛋白的表現量較白肌增加的快速。相同的，在肌肉肝酵的濃度的回補上也以紅肌較白肌為快。GLUT4mRNA的表現數量在運動後立即測量發現比控制組高出45%。在運動後碳水化合物開始補充的前五小時內，GLUT4 mRNA的表現量明顯快速下降，但其轉譯速率卻反而明顯增加。GLUT4mRNA與眾核醋體(polysomes)的結合數量增加。當肝酵超補現象已發生後，GLUT4 mRNA數量與其轉譯才回復至正常水準。本研究證明了運動後碳水化合物補充造成GLUT4mRNA轉譯活性增加，進而造成了GLUT4蛋白數量增加。由於筆者先前研究發現，在碳水化合物補充下肝醋的 合成量與GLUT4蛋白量成正比，這個GLUT4mRNA轉譯增加的現象也因此解釋了同時發生於肌肉的肝醋超補現象。

Skeletal muscle glycogen is largely depleted after a prolonged exercise bout and is hyperbolically repleted to a supercompensated level after an immediate post-exercise carbohydrate supplementation. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of post-exercise carbohydrate supplementation on GLUT4 expression and its relationship to glycogen repletion. An immediate post-exercise carbohydrate load completely normalized glycogen levels within 90 min in red and white gastrocnemius muscle， and reached supercompensation levels within 5 hours. In red gastrocnemius muscle， a faster and larger increase in GLUT4 protein and glycogen levels were observed within the 16-hour time course when compared to white gastrocnemius muscle. Red gastrocnemius GLUT4 mRNAwas increased by 46% immediately after the glycogen depleting exercise. Red quadriceps GLUT4 mRNAengaged with polysomes was increased immediately post exercise and during the first 5 hours of recovery although the initial elevation in GLUT4 mRNArapidly returned to control levels when glycogen was repleted. The current results demonstrate that a post-exercise carbohydrate supplementation increases translational activation of GLUT4 mRNAfollowing an initial GLUT4 mRNAelevation， explaining the continuous rise in GLUT4 protein during recovery. Theincrease in GLUT4 protein availability may explain， in part， the concurrent glycogen supercompensation in the same muscle.