運科新角色：尿液肌聯蛋白N端片段

陸康豪/國家運動科學中心助理研究員

摘要

回顧筆者過去一年所發表的科普文章，主要格式仍偏向學術寫作，為達到更接近科普的效果，本次的呈現風格將與過往有極大差異，不但大幅縮減文字內容，同時也自行繪製多張漫畫圖，希望達到淺顯易懂之成效，也期盼讓更多民眾對於我們TISS的科普文章感到興趣。本篇要向讀者介紹一個新穎的指標，全名為尿液肌聯蛋白N端片段，英文簡稱UTF (Urinary Titin N-Terminal Fragment)。UTF可反映出人體的肌肉損傷程度，進而用來評估運動員的狀況或恢復情形，因此逐漸受到運動科學領域重視。因檢測UTF所用的樣本為尿液，是非侵入性的檢測，可減緩受測者的不適感，是未來可廣泛採用的指標。

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