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Enhancement of skeletal muscle in aged rats following high-intensity stretch-shortening contraction training
Rader EP , Naimo MA , Layner KN , Triscuit AM , Chetlin RD , Ensey J , Baker BA . Rejuvenation Res 2016 20 (2) 93-102 Exercise is the most accessible, efficacious, and multifactoral intervention to improve health and treat chronic disease. High-intensity resistance exercise, in particular, also maximizes skeletal muscle size and strength - outcomes crucial at advanced age. However, such training is capable of inducing muscle maladaptation when misapplied at old age. Therefore, characterization of parameters (e.g. mode and frequency) which foster adaptation is an active research area. To address this issue, we utilized a rodent model that allowed training at maximal intensity in terms of muscle activation and tested the hypothesis that muscles of old rats adapt to stretch-shortening contraction training, provided the training frequency is sufficiently low. At termination of training, normalized muscle mass (i.e. muscle mass divided by tibia length) and muscle quality (isometric force divided by normalized muscle mass) were determined. For young rats, normalized muscle mass increased by ~20% regardless of training frequency. No difference was also observed for muscle quality values after 2 days vs 3 days per week training (0.65 +/- 0.09 N/mg/mm vs 0.59 +/- 0.05 N/mg/mm, respectively). For old rats following 3 days per week training, normalized muscle mass was unaltered and muscle quality was 30% lower than young levels. Following 2 days per week training at old age, normalized muscle mass increased by 17% and muscle quality was restored to young levels. To investigate this enhanced response, oxidative stress was assessed by lipid peroxidation quantification. For young rats, lipid peroxidation levels were unaltered by training. With aging, baseline levels of lipid peroxidation increased by 1.5-fold. For old rats, only 2 days per week training decreased lipid peroxidation to levels indistinguishable from young values. These results imply appropriately scheduled high-intensity stretch-shortening contraction training at old age is capable of restoring muscle to a younger phenotype in terms of lipid peroxidation levels and muscle quality. |
Desensitized morphological and cytokine response after stretch-shortening muscle contractions as a feature of aging in rats
Rader EP , Layner KN , Triscuit AM , Kashon ML , Gu JK , Ensey J , Baker BA . Exp Gerontol 2015 72 138-49 Recovery from contraction-induced injury is impaired with aging. At a young age, the secondary response several days following contraction-induced injury consists of edema, inflammatory cell infiltration, and segmental muscle fiber degeneration to aid in the clearance of damaged tissue and repair. This morphological response has not been wholly established at advanced age. Our aim was to characterize muscle fiber morphology 3 and 10days following stretch-shortening contractions (SSCs) varying in repetition number (i.e. 0, 30, 80, and 150) for young and old rats. For muscles of young rats, muscle fiber degeneration was overt at 3days exclusively after 80 or 150 SSCs and returned significantly closer to control values by 10days. For muscles of old rats, no such responses were observed. Transcriptional microarray analysis at 3days demonstrated that muscles of young rats differentially expressed up to 2144 genes while muscles of old rats differentially expressed 47 genes. Bioinformatic analysis indicated that cellular movement was a major biological process over-represented with genes that were significantly altered by SSCs especially for young rats. Protein levels in muscle for various cytokines and chemokines, key inflammatory factors for cell movement, increased 3- to 50-fold following high-repetition SSCs for young rats with no change for old rats. This age-related differential response was insightful given that for control (i.e. 0 SSCs) conditions, protein levels of circulatory cytokines/chemokines were increased with age. The results demonstrate ongoing systemic low-grade inflammatory signaling and subsequent desensitization of the cytokine/chemokine and morphological response to contraction-induced injury with aging - features which accompany age-related impairment in muscle recovery. |
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