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Verratti V, Di Giulio C, D'Angeli A, Tafuri A, Francavilla S, Pelliccione F. Sperm forward motility is negatively affected by short-term exposure to altitude hypoxia. Andrologia 2016; 48:800-6. [PMID: 26762696 DOI: 10.1111/and.12515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Human exposure to altitude is a model to study the role of oxygen in different areas of physiology and pathophysiology. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether a short exposure to hypoxia (5 days) combined with exercise, at altitude ranging from 900 m above sea level to 5895 m above sea level (Kilimanjaro Expedition) can modify seminal and reproductive hormonal parameter levels in human beings. During the ascent, blood oxygen saturation at 3.848 m above sea level was found to be decreased when compared to sea level (P < 0.02). The sperm forward motility at sea level after the expedition showed a significant reduction (P < 0.02). There were no changes in other seminal parameters among those compared. Determination of the hormonal plasma concentrations showed that baseline values of follicle-stimulating hormone, total testosterone, prolactin and oestradiol were unchanged at sea level after the hypoxic experience, with respect to baseline values at sea level. On the other hand, luteinising hormone levels after altitudes trekking significantly increased compared to levels before the expedition (P < 0.05). Because of the short-term exposure, we can assume that the reduced forward motility described here may result from the effects of the acute altitude hypoxia on spermatozoa during the epididymal transit where they mature acquiring their motility.
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- V Verratti
- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, G. D'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy.,Laboratory of Functional Evaluation, G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, G. D'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy
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- Department of Life, Health and Environment Sciences, Andrology Section, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Urology Clinic, Ospedale Civile Maggiore Verona, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Life, Health and Environment Sciences, Andrology Section, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Life, Health and Environment Sciences, Andrology Section, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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Ferrari F, Gorini A, Villa RF. Energy Metabolism of Synaptosomes from Different Neuronal Systems of Rat Cerebellum During Aging: A Functional Proteomic Characterization. Neurochem Res 2014; 40:172-85. [DOI: 10.1007/s11064-014-1482-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Revised: 11/03/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Villa RF, Ferrari F, Gorini A. Functional Proteomics Related to Energy Metabolism of Synaptosomes from Different Neuronal Systems of Rat Hippocampus during Aging. J Proteome Res 2013; 12:5422-35. [DOI: 10.1021/pr400834g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Roberto F. Villa
- Department of Biology and
Biotechnology - Laboratory of Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine
of Central Nervous System, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Biology and
Biotechnology - Laboratory of Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine
of Central Nervous System, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Biology and
Biotechnology - Laboratory of Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine
of Central Nervous System, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata, 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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Energy metabolism of cerebral mitochondria during aging, ischemia and post-ischemic recovery assessed by functional proteomics of enzymes. Neurochem Int 2013; 63:765-81. [PMID: 24128653 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2013.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2013] [Revised: 09/13/2013] [Accepted: 10/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability, but most of the therapeutic approaches failed in clinical trials. The energy metabolism alterations, due to marked ATP decline, are strongly related to stroke and, at present, their physiopathological roles are not fully understood. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of aging on ischemia-induced changes in energy mitochondrial transduction and the consequences on overall brain energy metabolism in an in vivo experimental model of complete cerebral ischemia of 15min duration and during post-ischemic recirculation after 1, 24, 48, 72 and 96h, in 1year "adult" and 2year-old "aged" rats. The maximum rate (Vmax) of citrate synthase, malate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase for Krebs' cycle; NADH-cytochrome c reductase and cytochrome oxidase for electron transfer chain (ETC) were assayed in non-synaptic "free" mitochondria and in two populations of intra-synaptic mitochondria, i.e., "light" and "heavy" mitochondria. The catalytic activities of enzymes markedly differ according to: (a) mitochondrial type (non-synaptic, intra-synaptic), (b) age, (c) acute effects of ischemia and (d) post-ischemic recirculation at different times. Enzyme activities changes are injury maturation events and strictly reflect the bioenergetic state of the tissue in each specific experimental condition respect to the energy demand, as shown by the comparative evaluation of the energy-linked metabolites and substrates content. Remarkably, recovery of mitochondrial function was more difficult for intra-synaptic mitochondria in "aged" rats, but enzyme activities of energy metabolism tended to normalize in all mitochondrial populations after 96h of recirculation. This observation is relevant for Therapy, indicating that mitochondrial enzymes may be important metabolic factors for the responsiveness of ischemic penumbra towards the restore of cerebral functions.
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Villa RF, Gorini A, Hoyer S. Effect of Ageing and Ischemia on Enzymatic Activities Linked to Krebs’ Cycle, Electron Transfer Chain, Glutamate and Aminoacids Metabolism of Free and Intrasynaptic Mitochondria of Cerebral Cortex. Neurochem Res 2009; 34:2102-16. [DOI: 10.1007/s11064-009-0004-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/15/2009] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Silveri MM, Dikan J, Ross AJ, Jensen JE, Kamiya T, Kawada Y, Renshaw PF, Yurgelun-Todd DA. Citicoline enhances frontal lobe bioenergetics as measured by phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2008; 21:1066-1075. [PMID: 18816480 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Citicoline supplementation has been used to ameliorate memory disturbances in older people and those with Alzheimer's disease. This study used MRS to characterize the effects of citicoline on high-energy phosphate metabolites and constituents of membrane synthesis in the frontal lobe. Phosphorus ((31)P) metabolite data were acquired using a three-dimensional chemical-shift imaging protocol at 4 T from 16 healthy men and women (mean +/- SD age 47.3 +/- 5.4 years) who orally self-administered 500 mg or 2000 mg Cognizin Citicoline (Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd, Ibaraki, Japan) for 6 weeks. Individual (31)P metabolites were quantified in the frontal lobe (anterior cingulate cortex) and a comparison region (parieto-occipital cortex). Significant increases in phosphocreatine (+7%), beta-nucleoside triphosphates (largely ATP in brain, +14%) and the ratio of phosphocreatine to inorganic phosphate (+32%), as well as significant changes in membrane phospholipids, were observed in the anterior cingulate cortex after 6 weeks of citicoline treatment. These treatment-related alterations in phosphorus metabolites were not only regionally specific, but tended to be of greater magnitude in subjects who received the lower dose. These data show that citicoline improves frontal lobe bioenergetics and alters phospholipid membrane turnover. Citicoline supplementation may therefore help to mitigate cognitive declines associated with aging by increasing energy reserves and utilization, as well as increasing the amount of essential phospholipid membrane components needed to synthesize and maintain cell membranes.
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- M M Silveri
- Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory, McLean Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478-9106, USA.
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Villa RF, Gorini A, Hoyer S. Differentiated effect of ageing on the enzymes of Krebs’ cycle, electron transfer complexes and glutamate metabolism of non-synaptic and intra-synaptic mitochondria from cerebral cortex. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2006; 113:1659-70. [PMID: 16969625 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-006-0569-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2006] [Accepted: 07/20/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The effect of ageing on the activity of enzymes linked to Krebs' cycle, electron transfer chain and glutamate metabolism was studied in three different types of mitochondria of cerebral cortex of 1-year old and 2-year old male Wistar rats. We assessed the maximum rate (V(max)) of the mitochondrial enzyme activities in non-synaptic perikaryal mitochondria, and in two populations of intra-synaptic mitochondria. The results indicated that: (i) in normal, steady-state cerebral cortex the values of the catalytic activities of the enzymes markedly differed in the various populations of mitochondria; (ii) in intra-synaptic mitochondria, ageing affected the catalytic properties of the enzymes linked to Krebs' cycle, electron transfer chain and glutamate metabolism; (iii) these changes were more evident in intra-synaptic "heavy" than "light" mitochondria. These results indicate a different age-related vulnerability of subpopulations of mitochondria in vivo located into synapses than non-synaptic ones.
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- R F Villa
- Department of Physiological-Pharmacological Cellular-Molecular Sciences, Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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Tendi EA, Bosetti F, Dasgupta SF, Stella AMG, Drieu K, Rapoport SI. Ginkgo biloba extracts EGb 761 and bilobalide increase NADH dehydrogenase mRNA level and mitochondrial respiratory control ratio in PC12 cells. Neurochem Res 2002; 27:319-23. [PMID: 11958534 DOI: 10.1023/a:1014963313559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In the present study, we investigated the effect of Ginkgo biloba extract, EGb 761, and one of its components, bilobalide, on gene expression of subunit 1 of mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase (ND1) in PC12 cells. By Northern blot analysis we found a approximately 2-fold significant increase in NDI mRNA level, after 48 and 72 h exposure to 100 microg/ml EGb 761 and to 10 microg/ml bilobalide. We also evaluated, by oxygraphy measurements, mitochondrial respiration during state 3 and state 4. In cells treated with EGb 761 and bilobalide for 48 and 72 h, state 4 respiration was significantly decreased, and the respiratory control ratio was increased. These results provide evidence that EGb 761 and bilobalide exert their protective effects by up-regulating mitochondrial ND1 gene expression and by decreasing state 4 respiration, whose increase is thought to be responsible for oxidative damage.
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- Elisabetta A Tendi
- Brain Physiology and Metabolism Section, National Institute on Aging. National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Chapter 6 Contribution of Mitochondrial Alterations to Brain Aging. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1997. [DOI: 10.1016/s1566-3124(08)60056-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Nicoletti VG, Tendi EA, Lalicata C, Reale S, Costa A, Villa RF, Ragusa N, Giuffrida Stella AM. Changes of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase and FoF1 ATP synthase subunits in rat cerebral cortex during aging. Neurochem Res 1995; 20:1465-70. [PMID: 8789609 DOI: 10.1007/bf00970595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The contents of subunits I, II/III, and IV of cytochrome c oxidase and of subunits alpha, beta and gamma of FoF1 ATP synthase in inner mitochondrial membrane proteins purified from cerebral cortex of rat at 2, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 26 months of age were analyzed by western blot. Age-related changes in the content of subunits, either of mitochondrial or nuclear origin, were observed. All the cytochrome c oxidase (COX) subunits examined showed an age-related increase from 2-month-old rats up to 24 months with a decrease at the oldest age (26 months). The same pattern of age-dependent changes was observed for gamma ATP synthase, while the alpha and beta subunits increased progressively up to 26 months.
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- V G Nicoletti
- Institute of Biochemistry, University of Catania, Italy
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Villa RF, Ingrao F, Magri G, Gorini A, Reale S, Costa A, Ragusa N, Avola R, Giuffrida-Stella AM. Effect of CDP-choline treatment on mitochondrial and synaptosomal protein composition in different brain regions during aging. Int J Dev Neurosci 1993; 11:83-93. [PMID: 8488757 DOI: 10.1016/0736-5748(93)90037-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Several age-dependent modifications of inner mitochondrial membrane and synaptosomal plasma membrane proteins from different brain regions of 4-, 12-, 18- and 24-month-old male Wistar rats, were observed. Some proteins, identified by immunoblotting assay as various subunits of mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes and calmodulin, were particularly impaired. Chronic treatment with CDP-choline at a dose of 20 mg/kg body weight per day for 28 days caused significant changes in the amounts of several of the above mentioned proteins. Most of the proteins, which decreased during aging, showed a significant increase after CDP-choline treatment compared with the corresponding control values at the same age. The effect of CDP-choline might be due to: the increased availability of cytidylic nucleotides, which in the brain are present in limited amounts compared to the other nucleotides; the increased content of total adenine nucleotides; the improvement of brain energy metabolism.
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- R F Villa
- Institute of Pharmacology, Faculty of Science, University of Pavia, Italy
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