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Daurio NA, Zhou H, Chen Y, Sheth PR, Imbriglio JE, McLaren DG, Tawa P, Rachdaoui N, Previs MJ, Kasumov T, O’Neil J, Previs SF. Examining Targeted Protein Degradation from Physiological and Analytical Perspectives: Enabling Translation between Cells and Subjects. ACS Chem Biol 2020; 15:2623-2635. [PMID: 32930572 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The ability to target specific proteins for degradation may open a new door toward developing therapeutics. Although effort in chemistry is essential for advancing this modality, i.e., one needs to generate proteolysis targeting chimeras (bifunctional molecules, also referred to as PROTACS) or "molecular glues" to accelerate protein degradation, we suspect that investigations could also benefit by directing attention toward physiological regulation surrounding protein homeostasis, including the methods that can be used to examine changes in protein kinetics. This perspective will first consider some metabolic scenarios that might be of importance when one aims to change protein abundance by increasing protein degradation. Specifically, could protein turnover impact the apparent outcome? We will then outline how to study protein dynamics by coupling stable isotope tracer methods with mass spectrometry-based detection; since the experimental conditions could have a dramatic effect on protein turnover, special attention is directed toward the application of methods for quantifying protein kinetics using in vitro and in vivo models. Our goal is to present key concepts that should enable mechanistically informed studies which test targeted protein degradation strategies.
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- Natalie A. Daurio
- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, United States
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05454, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio 44272, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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- Merck & Co., Inc, 2000 Galloping Hill Rd, Kenilworth, New Jersey 07033, United States
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Nearly 50 years ago, I set out to investigate the clinical problem of hypoglycemia in children with illnesses that limited their food intake. My goal was to gather accurate and precise measurable data. At the time, I wasn't interested in nutrition as a discipline defined in its more general or popular sense. To address the specific problem that interested me required development of entirely new methods based on stable, nonradioactive tracers that satisfied the conditions of accuracy and precision. At the time, I had no inclination of the various theoretical and practical problems that would have to be solved to achieve this goal. Some are briefly described here. Nor did I have the slightest idea that developing the field would result in a fundamental change in how human clinical investigation was conducted, with the eventual replacement of radiotracers with stable isotopically labeled ones, even for adult clinical investigation. Additionally, I had no inclination that the original questions would open avenues to much broader questions of practical nutritional relevance. Moreover, only much later as the editor of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition did I appreciate the policy implications of how nutritional data are presented in the scientific literature. At least in part, less accurate and precise measurements and less than full transparency in reporting nutritional data have resulted in widespread debate about the public policy recommendations and guidelines that are the intended result of collecting the data in the first place. This article provides a personal recollection (with all the known faults of self-reporting and retrospective memory) of the journey that starts with measurement certainty and ends with policy uncertainty.
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- Dennis M Bier
- USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030;
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Go YM, Walker DI, Soltow QA, Uppal K, Wachtman LM, Strobel FH, Pennell K, Promislow DEL, Jones DP. Metabolome-wide association study of phenylalanine in plasma of common marmosets. Amino Acids 2014; 47:589-601. [PMID: 25526869 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-014-1893-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 12/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Little systematic knowledge exists concerning the impacts of cumulative lifelong exposure, termed the exposome, on requirements for nutrients. Phenylalanine (Phe) is an essential dietary amino acid with an aromatic ring structure similar to endogenous metabolites, dietary compounds and environmental agents. Excess plasma Phe in genetic disease or nutritional deficiency of Phe has adverse health consequences. In principle, structurally similar chemicals interfering with Phe utilization could alter Phe requirement at an individual level. As a strategy to identify components of the exposome that could interfere with Phe utilization, we tested for metabolites correlating with Phe concentration in plasma of a non-human primate species, common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The results of tests for more than 5,000 chemical features detected by high-resolution metabolomics showed 17 positive correlations with Phe metabolites and other amino acids. Positive and negative correlations were also observed for 33 other chemicals, which included matches to endogenous metabolites and dietary, microbial and environmental chemicals in database searches. Chemical similarity analysis showed many of the matches had high structural similarity to Phe. Together, the results show that chemicals in marmoset plasma could impact Phe utilization. Such chemicals could contribute to early lifecycle developmental disorders when neurological development is vulnerable to Phe levels.
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- Young-Mi Go
- Clinical Biomarkers Laboratory, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, 205 Whitehead Research Center, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA
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Justice JN, Pierpoint LA, Mani D, Schwartz RS, Enoka RM. Motor function is associated with 1,25(OH)(2)D and indices of insulin-glucose dynamics in non-diabetic older adults. Aging Clin Exp Res 2014; 26:249-54. [PMID: 24155214 DOI: 10.1007/s40520-013-0166-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND Advancing age is accompanied by changes in metabolic characteristics, such as reduced insulin sensitivity and low levels of vitamin D, which may exacerbate age-related declines in physical function. AIMS The aim of the present study was to determine the associations between insulin-glucose dynamics, vitamin D metabolites, and performance on a battery of motor tasks in healthy, non-diabetic older adults. METHODS Sixty-nine community-dwelling men and women (65-90 years) were recruited. Insulin-glucose dynamics were determined by an intravenous glucose tolerance test, and vitamin D metabolites were measured. Motor function was characterized by the time to walk 500 m, chair-rise time, lower body strength, dorsiflexor steadiness and endurance time, and muscle coactivation. RESULTS Significant unadjusted correlations were found between insulin-glucose dynamics and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D] with walk time, strength, steadiness, endurance time, and muscle activation (p < 0.05). A significant amount of the variance in walking endurance was explained by the sex of the individual, 1,25(OH)2D, and fasting blood insulin (R (2) = 0.36, p < 0.001). Strength could be partially explained by age, body fatness, and fasting glucose (R (2) = 0.55, p < 0.001). DISCUSSION Poor motor function in non-diabetic older men and women was associated with indices of insulin-glucose dynamics and the bio-active vitamin D metabolite 1,25(OH)2D. Walking endurance and strength were explained by 1,25(OH)2D and fasting blood glucose and insulin, even after adjusting for age, sex, and body fat. CONCLUSION Motor function in a relatively small sample of non-diabetic older men and women was associated with metabolic factors that increase in prevalence with aging.
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Tessari P, Cecchet D, Artusi C, Vettore M, Millioni R, Plebani M, Puricelli L, Vedovato M. Roles of insulin, age, and asymmetric dimethylarginine on nitric oxide synthesis in vivo. Diabetes 2013; 62:2699-708. [PMID: 23474488 PMCID: PMC3717854 DOI: 10.2337/db12-1127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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We tested the effects of insulin on production of nitrous oxide (NO)-related substances (nitrites and nitrates [NOx]) after (15)N-arginine intravenous infusion and on asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) concentrations in conditions reportedly associated with altered NO availability, i.e., aging, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). A total of 26 male subjects (age 23-71 years, BMI 23-33 kg/m(2)), some of whom were affected by mixed pathologic features, were enrolled. NOx fractional synthesis rate (FSR) was lower in elderly (P < 0.015) and T2DM subjects (P < 0.03) than in matched control subjects. Hyperinsulinemia generally increased both NOx FSR and absolute synthesis rate (ASR) and reduced NOx, ADMA, and SDMA concentrations. Insulin sensitivity was impaired only in T2DM. With use of simple linear regression analysis across all subjects, age was inversely correlated with both NOx FSR (R(2) = 0.23, P < 0.015) and ASR (R(2) = 0.21, P < 0.02). NOx FSR inversely correlated with both ADMA and SDMA. With use of multiple regression analysis and various models, NOx FSR remained inversely associated with age and ADMA, whereas ASR was inversely associated with age and diabetes. No association with insulin sensitivity was found. We conclude that whole-body NOx production is decreased in aging and T2DM. Age, ADMA concentration, and T2DM, but not insulin resistance, appear as negative regulators of whole-body NOx production.
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- Paolo Tessari
- Metabolism Division, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
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Khamseh ME, Malek M, Aghili R, Emami Z. Sarcopenia and diabetes: pathogenesis and consequences. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1177/1474651411413644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Sarcopenia, loss of muscle mass with age, is considered as a major cause of frailty and decreased independence in the elderly population. On the other hand, ageing is associated with an increase in prevalence of diabetes. In this review, we discuss the pathophysiological basis of sarcopenia and its relationship to oxidative stress and insulin resistance state, which contribute to development of glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes. We will also discuss some ideas on the consequences and treatment of sarcopenia.
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- Mohammad E Khamseh
- Endocrine Research Center (Firoozgar), Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Endocrine Research Center (Firoozgar), Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Endocrine Research Center (Firoozgar), Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Endocrine Research Center (Firoozgar), Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Tessari P, Millioni R, Vettore M, Cecchet D, Puricelli L. Middle age is not associated with altered fibrinogen concentration and production in males. Acta Diabetol 2010; 47:155-9. [PMID: 19774333 DOI: 10.1007/s00592-009-0144-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2009] [Accepted: 09/03/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Whether ageing is associated with increased fibrinogen concentration and production remains unclear. We measured fibrinogen fractional (FSR) and absolute synthesis (ASR) rates in male volunteers, of either young (mean age: 28 years, range: 22-34) or middle age (mean age: 57 years, range: 38-72), using a leucine-tracer isotope dilution technique. In the middle-age group, neither fibrinogen FSR (20.8 +/- 1.6%/day) nor ASR (1.8 +/- 0.1 g/day), or concentration (274 +/- 15 mg/dl), were different from those of the younger group (FSR: 20.2 +/- 1.4; ASR: 1.7 +/- 0.2; concentration: 265 +/- 8, respectively). Leucine Ra, an index of endogenous proteolysis, was approximately 20% lower in the older than in the younger group (P < 0.02). Thus, middle age in males is not associated with increased fibrinogen concentration and turnover, whereas endogenous protein breakdown in decreased. Factor(s) different from age per se are likely to be involved in the dysfibrinogenemia possibly occurring with ageing. Protein turnover is already reduced in middle-age males.
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- Paolo Tessari
- Metabolism Division, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
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van den Borne JJGC, Verstegen MWA, Alferink SJJ, van Ass FHM, Gerrits WJJ. Synchronizing the availability of amino acids and glucose decreases fat retention in heavy preruminant calves. J Nutr 2006; 136:2181-7. [PMID: 16857838 DOI: 10.1093/jn/136.8.2181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Effects of synchronizing the availability of amino acids and glucose within a day on protein and energy metabolism were studied in heavy preruminant calves. Thirty-six preruminant calves (148 +/- 1.6 kg body weight) were assigned to 1 of 6 degrees of nutrient synchrony (SYN, 1-6) and to 1 of 2 meal sequences (i.e., the high-protein meal in the morning or in the evening). Calves at SYN 1 received 2 balanced meals: one at 0600 and one at 1800. Nutrient synchrony decreased stepwise from SYN 1 to SYN 6 in which calves received 85% of the daily protein supply in 1 meal. The digestible energy intakes at 0600 and 1800 were equal between treatments. Daily intakes of all nutrients and dietary ingredients were identical for all treatments. Calves were housed individually in respiration chambers. Apparent fecal nutrient digestibility and nitrogen and energy balances were measured. Apparent nutrient digestibility decreased when >71% of the dietary protein was fed in one meal. Nutrient synchrony did not affect the efficiency of digestible protein utilization in calves at a identical digestible nutrient intake. Heat production decreased from 691 to 629 kJ/(kg(0.75) x d) (P < 0.05) and energy retained as fat increased from 116 to 184 kJ/(kg(0.75) x d) (P < 0.01) with decreasing nutrient synchrony. Meal sequence did not affect any of the traits. In conclusion, synchronizing the availability of amino acids and glucose within a day did not increase the efficiency of protein utilization but substantially decreased fat retention in heavy preruminant calves.
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- Joost J G C van den Borne
- Animal Nutrition Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Guillet C, Boirie Y. Insulin resistance: a contributing factor to age-related muscle mass loss? DIABETES & METABOLISM 2006; 31 Spec No 2:5S20-5S26. [PMID: 16415762 DOI: 10.1016/s1262-3636(05)73648-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Structural and functional modifications occur in skeletal muscle during aging. These defects lead to impairment in muscle strength, contractile capacity and performance. Among factors implicated in this age-related loss of muscle mass, a dysregulation of protein synthesis and breakdown has frequently been reported. Insulin plays a major role in regulating muscle protein metabolism, since its action contributes to increase net gain of muscle protein in animal and humans. More recently, specific actions of insulin on various muscle proteins, notably mitochondrial proteins, have been demonstrated, suggesting that insulin is also a major regulating factor of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in human skeletal muscle. Insulin resistance develops with aging, classically involving changes in glucose tolerance. However, the effect of insulin on protein metabolism is less well documented, and insulin resistance could be involved in age-related muscle protein loss, progressively leading to sarcopenia. Therefore in a more general concept, insulin resistance found in many clinical settings, could be considered as a contributor to muscle wasting.
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- C Guillet
- Unité du Métabolisme Protéino-Energétique, UMR Université d'Auvergne/INRA, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine, CHRU de Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Abbatecola AM, Ferrucci L, Ceda G, Russo CR, Lauretani F, Bandinelli S, Barbieri M, Valenti G, Paolisso G. Insulin resistance and muscle strength in older persons. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2006; 60:1278-82. [PMID: 16282559 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/60.10.1278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The functional consequences of an age-related insulin resistance (IR) state on muscle functioning are unknown. Because insulin is needed for adequate muscle function, an age-related insulin-resistant state may also be a determining factor. We evaluated the relationship between IR and handgrip muscle strength in men and women from a large population-based study (n = 968). METHODS The degree of IR was evaluated by the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) and muscle strength was assessed using handgrip. RESULTS Simple sex-stratified correlations demonstrated that, in men, body mass index-adjusted handgrip strength correlated positively with physical activity (r = 0.321; p < .001), muscle area (r = 0.420; p < .001), muscle density (r = 0.263; p = .001), plasma albumin (r = 0.156; p = .001), insulin-like growth factor-1 (r = 0.258; p < .001), calcium (r = 0.140; p = .006), and testosterone (r = 0.325; p < .001) concentrations, whereas a negative association was found for age (r = -0.659; p < .001) and myoglobin plasma levels (r = -0.164; p =.001). In women, body mass index-adjusted handgrip strength correlated positively with physical activity (r = 0.280; p < .001), muscle area (r = 0.306; p < .001), muscle density (r = 0.341; p = .001), plasma albumin (r = 0.140; p =.001), and insulin-like growth factor-1 (r = 0.300; p < .001), whereas a negative association was found for age (r = -0.563; p < .001), myoglobin levels (r = -0.164; p = .001), and IR (r = -0.130; p = .04). CONCLUSIONS Sex-stratified analyses adjusted for multiple confounders showed that the relationship between IR and handgrip strength was found significant in women, whereas it was negligible and not significant in men.
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- Angela M Abbatecola
- Department of Geriatric Medicine and Metabolic Diseases II, University of Naples, Italy
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Paddon-Jones D, Sheffield-Moore M, Zhang XJ, Volpi E, Wolf SE, Aarsland A, Ferrando AA, Wolfe RR. Amino acid ingestion improves muscle protein synthesis in the young and elderly. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2004; 286:E321-8. [PMID: 14583440 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00368.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 310] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We recently demonstrated that muscle protein synthesis was stimulated to a similar extent in young and elderly subjects during a 3-h amino acid infusion. We sought to determine if a more practical bolus oral ingestion would also produce a similar response in young (34 +/- 4 yr) and elderly (67 +/- 2 yr) individuals. Arteriovenous blood samples and muscle biopsies were obtained during a primed (2.0 micromol/kg) constant infusion (0.05 micromol.kg(-1).min(-1)) of L-[ring-2H5]phenylalanine. Muscle protein kinetics and mixed muscle fractional synthetic rate (FSR) were calculated before and after the bolus ingestion of 15 g of essential amino acids (EAA) in young (n = 6) and elderly (n = 7) subjects. After EAA ingestion, the rate of increase in femoral artery phenylalanine concentration was slower in elderly subjects but remained elevated for a longer period. EAA ingestion increased FSR in both age groups by approximately 0.04%/h (P < 0.05). However, muscle intracellular (IC) phenylalanine concentration remained significantly higher in elderly subjects at the completion of the study (young: 115.6 +/- 5.4 nmol/ml; elderly: 150.2 +/- 19.4 nmol/ml). Correction for the free phenylalanine retained in the muscle IC pool resulted in similar net phenylalanine uptake values in the young and elderly. EAA ingestion increased plasma insulin levels in young (6.1 +/- 1.2 to 21.3 +/- 3.1 microIU/ml) but not in elderly subjects (3.0 +/- 0.6 to 4.3 +/- 0.4 microIU/ml). Despite differences in the time course of plasma phenylalanine kinetics and a greater residual IC phenylalanine concentration, amino acid supplementation acutely stimulated muscle protein synthesis in both young and elderly individuals.
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- Douglas Paddon-Jones
- Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77550, USA.
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Short KR, Vittone JL, Bigelow ML, Proctor DN, Nair KS. Age and aerobic exercise training effects on whole body and muscle protein metabolism. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2004; 286:E92-101. [PMID: 14506079 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00366.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 297] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Aging in humans is associated with loss of lean body mass, but the causes are incompletely defined. Lean tissue mass and function depend on continuous rebuilding of proteins. We tested the hypotheses that whole body and mixed muscle protein metabolism declines with age in men and women and that aerobic exercise training would partly reverse this decline. Seventy-eight healthy, previously untrained men and women aged 19-87 yr were studied before and after 4 mo of bicycle training (up to 45 min at 80% peak heart rate, 3-4 days/wk) or control (flexibility) activity. At the whole body level, protein breakdown (measured as [13C]leucine and [15N]phenylalanine flux), Leu oxidation, and protein synthesis (nonoxidative Leu disposal) declined with age at a rate of 4-5% per decade (P < 0.001). Fat-free mass was closely correlated with protein turnover and declined 3% per decade (P < 0.001), but even after covariate adjustment for fat-free mass, the decline in protein turnover with age remained significant. There were no differences between men and women after adjustment for fat-free mass. Mixed muscle protein synthesis also declined with age 3.5% per decade (P < 0.05). Exercise training improved aerobic capacity 9% overall (P < 0.01), and mixed muscle protein synthesis increased 22% (P < 0.05), with no effect of age on the training response for either variable. Fat-free mass, whole body protein turnover, and resting metabolic rate were unchanged by training. We conclude that rates of whole body and muscle protein metabolism decline with age in men and women, thus indicating that there is a progressive decline in the body's remodeling processes with aging. This study also demonstrates that aerobic exercise can enhance muscle protein synthesis irrespective of age.
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- Kevin R Short
- Endocrinology Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Meyer C, Stumvoll M, Welle S, Woerle HJ, Haymond M, Gerich J. Relative importance of liver, kidney, and substrates in epinephrine-induced increased gluconeogenesis in humans. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2003; 285:E819-26. [PMID: 12959936 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00145.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Splanchnic and renal net balance measurements indicate that lactate and glycerol may be important precursors for epinephrine-stimulated gluconeogenesis (GNG) in liver and kidney, but the effects of epinephrine on their renal and hepatic conversion to glucose in humans have not yet been reported. We therefore used a combination of renal balance and isotopic techniques in nine postabsorptive volunteers to measure systemic and renal GNG from these precursors before and during a 3-h infusion of epinephrine (270 pmol. kg-1. min-1) and calculated hepatic GNG as the difference between systemic and renal rates. During infusion of epinephrine, renal and hepatic GNG from lactate increased 4- to 6-fold and accounted for approximately 85 and 70% of renal and hepatic glucose release, respectively, at the end of study; renal and hepatic GNG from glycerol increased approximately 1.5- to 2-fold and accounted for approximately 7-9% of renal and hepatic glucose release at the end of study. The increased renal GNG from lactate and glycerol was due not only to their increased renal uptake (approximately 3.3- and 1.4-fold, respectively) but also increased renal gluconeogenic efficiency (approximately 1.8- and 1.5-fold). The increased renal uptake of lactate and glycerol was wholly due to their increased arterial concentrations, since their renal fractional extraction remained unchanged and renal blood flow decreased. We conclude that 1) lactate is the predominant precursor for epinephrine-stimulated GNG in both liver and kidney, 2) hepatic and renal GNG from lactate and glycerol are similarly sensitive to stimulation by epinephrine, and 3) epinephrine increases renal GNG from lactate and glycerol by increasing substrate availability and the gluconeogenic efficiency of the kidney.
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- Christian Meyer
- Department of Medicine, University of Roichester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
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Prevalence of sarcopenia is up to 60% of those individuals over 80 years of age and is associated with increased disability. The causes behind the age-related loss of muscle are difficult to discern. Measurements of protein synthesis/breakdown and net protein balance are important, and further methodological development is warranted. Whole body protein turnover is changed only little - if at all - with ageing, when corrected for fat free mass of the individuals. Discrepancies in reports are often related to inconsistent recordings of energy intake especially protein and variation in subject, gender and physical activity level. Ageing is associated with reduced sensitivity toward amino acids, increased first pass uptake in a splanchnic region and a reduced postprandial stimulation of protein synthesis. Physical activity and amino acids are additive in effect also in elderly individuals, and timing of training and protein intake is crucial, in that early intake of amino acids is advantageous with regards to stimulation of protein synthesis.
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- J Dorrens
- Division of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
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Bos C, Benamouzig R, Bruhat A, Roux C, Mahé S, Valensi P, Gaudichon C, Ferrière F, Rautureau J, Tomé D. Short-term protein and energy supplementation activates nitrogen kinetics and accretion in poorly nourished elderly subjects. Am J Clin Nutr 2000; 71:1129-37. [PMID: 10799375 DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/71.5.1129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND An increase in protein intake exerts a stimulating effect on protein kinetics in children, young adults, and healthy elderly persons. However, there are few data on the response to such dietary changes in malnourished elderly subjects, despite important medical implications in this population. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the metabolic response to short-term nutritional supplementation in moderately malnourished elderly subjects. DESIGN The influence of 10 d of supplementation (1.67 MJ/d and 30 g protein/d) on body composition, resting energy expenditure, and whole-body protein kinetics was studied in 17 malnourished elderly patients and 12 healthy young adults. A control group of 6 malnourished elderly patients received no supplementation. RESULTS Supplemented elderly subjects had a significantly greater fat-free mass gain than did unsupplemented elderly subjects (1.3 and 0.1 kg, respectively; age effect, P < 0.05; diet effect, P < 0.02) and a significantly greater increase in fasting rate of protein synthesis than did young supplemented subjects (0.6 and 0.2 g*kg FFM(-1)*11 h(-1); age effect, P < 0.05). The net protein balance in the supplemented elderly subjects in the fed state was positively correlated with protein intake (r(2) = 0.46) and in the fasted state was negatively correlated with protein intake (r(2) = 0.27). The sum of these regressions is a line with increasingly positive net diurnal protein balance produced by increasing protein intake. CONCLUSION These data provide evidence of a short-term anabolic response of protein metabolism to dietary supplementation in malnourished elderly patients that is likely to improve muscle strength and functional status.
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- C Bos
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité de Nutrition Humaine et de Physiologie Intestinale, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INA PG), Paris, France.
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Arnal MA, Mosoni L, Boirie Y, Gachon P, Genest M, Bayle G, Grizard J, Arnal M, Antoine JM, Beaufrère B, Mirand PP. Protein turnover modifications induced by the protein feeding pattern still persist after the end of the diets. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2000; 278:E902-9. [PMID: 10780947 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.2000.278.5.e902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This study was undertaken to determine whether the protein feeding pattern could induce chronic adaptation of protein turnover. After a 15-day adaptive period, elderly (68 yr) and young (26 yr) women received, for 14 days, a diet providing 200 KJ x kg fat-free mass (FFM)(-1) x day(-1), where the daily protein intake (1.7 g protein x kg FFM(-1) x day(-1)) was either spread over 4 meals in the spread pattern or mainly (80%) consumed at noon in the pulse pattern. One day after the end of the dietary treatment, whole body leucine kinetics were measured by use of a continuous [(13)C]leucine infusion, both in the postabsorptive state and in the same fed state. The pulse pattern was able to induce, in young as in elderly women, a lower postabsorptive leucine oxidation and endogenous leucine flux than the spread pattern and improved the responsiveness of nonoxidative leucine disposal during 4-h oral feeding. Thus the pulse pattern was able to induce chronic regulation of protein metabolism in young as in elderly women.
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- M A Arnal
- Unité d'Etude du Métabolisme Azoté, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique et Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine, 63122 Clermont-Ferrand-Theix, France.
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Age is associated with modifications of body composition, i.e., an increase in body fat mass and a decrease in protein mass. Because insulin controls substrate disposal and production, these changes could theoretically be related to changes in either insulin action or secretion on the various substrates. On the basis of available evidence, insulin action on whole-body amino acid and protein metabolism seems not to be impaired in the aged. Decreased synthesis of contractile and mitochondrial proteins in muscle, associated with decreased gene expression, was described in humans. Decreased physical activity apparently represents an important factor responsible for decreased muscle protein synthesis and mass in the elderly. Exercise in the elderly may acutely revert these changes, although its chronic effects are still uncertain. In addition, the possible interaction between insulin and exercise in the maintenance of muscle mass needs to be specifically investigated in aged people. Higher free fatty acid (FFA) absolute flux and oxidation rates were observed in healthy elderly subjects in both the fasting state and following hyperinsulinemia, but not when normalized over fat mass. This suggests that FFA kinetics reflect the established changes in fat mass. Insulin sensitivity on glucose metabolism is usually normal in the aged, despite subtle impairments in insulin secretion, hepatic uptake, and onset of action. Finally, data support the operation of the Randle cycle (i.e., inverse relationships between fat and glucose oxidation) in the elderly.
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- P Tessari
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padova, Italy
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de Bandt JP, Blondé-Cynober F, Bories PN, Cassereau C, Cynober L, Devanlay M, Le Boucher J, Minet-Quinard R, Pailla K, Vasson MP, Villié F. Les modifications de la sensibilité aux hormones au cours du vieillissement : conséquences métaboliques et nutritionnelles. NUTR CLIN METAB 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0985-0562(98)80071-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Meyer C, Stumvoll M, Nadkarni V, Dostou J, Mitrakou A, Gerich J. Abnormal renal and hepatic glucose metabolism in type 2 diabetes mellitus. J Clin Invest 1998; 102:619-24. [PMID: 9691098 PMCID: PMC508922 DOI: 10.1172/jci2415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 214] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Release of glucose by liver and kidney are both increased in diabetic animals. Although the overall release of glucose into the circulation is increased in humans with diabetes, excessive release of glucose by either their liver or kidney has not as yet been demonstrated. The present experiments were therefore undertaken to assess the relative contributions of hepatic and renal glucose release to the excessive glucose release found in type 2 diabetes. Using a combination of isotopic and balance techniques to determine total systemic glucose release and renal glucose release in postabsorptive type 2 diabetic subjects and age-weight-matched nondiabetic volunteers, their hepatic glucose release was then calculated as the difference between total systemic glucose release and renal glucose release. Renal glucose release was increased nearly 300% in diabetic subjects (321+/-36 vs. 125+/-15 micromol/min, P < 0.001). Hepatic glucose release was increased approximately 30% (P = 0.03), but increments in hepatic and renal glucose release were comparable (2.60+/-0.70 vs. 2.21+/-0.32, micromol.kg-1.min-1, respectively, P = 0.26). Renal glucose uptake was markedly increased in diabetic subjects (353+/-48 vs. 103+/-10 micromol/min, P < 0.001), resulting in net renal glucose uptake in the diabetic subjects (92+/-50 micromol/ min) versus a net output in the nondiabetic subjects (21+/-14 micromol/min, P = 0.043). Renal glucose uptake was inversely correlated with renal FFA uptake (r = -0.51, P < 0.01), which was reduced by approximately 60% in diabetic subjects (10. 9+/-2.7 vs. 27.0+/-3.3 micromol/min, P < 0.002). We conclude that in type 2 diabetes, both liver and kidney contribute to glucose overproduction and that renal glucose uptake is markedly increased. The latter may suppress renal FFA uptake via a glucose-fatty acid cycle and explain the accumulation of glycogen commonly found in the diabetic kidney.
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- C Meyer
- Departments of Medicine and Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York 14642, USA
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Tessari P, Barazzoni R, Zanetti M, Vettore M, Normand S, Bruttomesso D, Beaufrere B. Protein degradation and synthesis measured with multiple amino acid tracers in vivo. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1996; 271:E733-41. [PMID: 8897862 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1996.271.4.e733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Whether tracers of different essential amino acids yield the same estimates of body protein turnover is still uncertain. Therefore, we have simultaneously determined leucine (Leu; using [14C]Leu), phenylalanine (Phe; using [13C]Phe), and tyrosine (Tyr; using [2H2]Tyr) rates of appearance (Ra) from proteolysis (PD), as well as Leu and Phe disposal, into protein synthesis (PS) both before and after an anabolic stimulus in healthy volunteers. Protein anabolism was stimulated by insulin plus a branched-chain amino acid-enriched aromatic amino acid-deficient amino acid solution, which increased Leu (from 145 +/- 9 to 266 +/- 10 mumol/l) but decreased Phe (from 57 +/- 2 to 46 +/- 3) and Tyr (from 58.7 +/- 5.5 to 21.0 +/- 2.2) concentrations. Postabsorptive endogenous Leu Ra (2.04 +/- 0.12 mumol.kg-1.min-1), Phe Ra (0.66 +/- 0.03), and Tyr Ra (0.45 +/- 0.06), as well as rates of PS determined with the leucine (1.65 +/- 0.10 mumol.kg-1.min-1) and the phenylalanine tracer (0.57 +/- 0.03), agreed well with the known abundance of these amino acids in body protein(s). After insulin and amino acids, PD was suppressed (P < 0.001) using all tracers. However, although percent suppression of endogenous Leu Ra (-->1.49 +/- 0.10 mumol.kg-1.min-1, 26 +/- 5%) and Phe Ra (-->0.53 +/- 0.02 mumol.kg-1.min-1, -20 +/- 2%) were comparable, endogenous Tyr Ra was suppressed to a larger extent (-->0.23 +/- 0.02 mumol.kg-1.min-1, -46 +/- 3% P = 0.038). PS was stimulated using the Leu (+24 +/- 7%, P < 0.02) but not the Phe (+6 +/- 4%, not significant) data. We conclude that isotopes of different essential amino acid: provide comparable estimates of PD and PS in the postabsorptive state. However, their responses to an anabolic stimulus may differ, possibly depending on exogenous amino acid availability and/or the resulting plasma levels.
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- P Tessari
- Department of Metabolism, University of Padua, Italy
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Pagano G, Marena S, Scaglione L, Bodoni P, Montegrosso G, Bruno A, Cassader M, Bonetti G, Cavallo Perin P. Insulin resistance shows selective metabolic and hormonal targets in the elderly. Eur J Clin Invest 1996; 26:650-6. [PMID: 8872059 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2362.1996.tb02148.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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There has been no simultaneous evaluation of different aspects of insulin action in ageing. We studied 12 elderly (77 +/- 2 years) and 12 young (26 +/- 1 years) subjects with normal glucose tolerance and matched for sex, body mass index, lean body mass (LBM), blood pressure and physical activity, using a euglycaemic-hyperinsulinaemic clamp at about 350 pmol L-1 in combination with [3H]-glucose infusion. In the elderly group, hepatic glucose production was normal, fasting serum insulin and C-peptide were significantly increased (P = 0.001) and glucose utilization (34.4 +/- 2.4 vs. 44.4 +/- 3.2 mumol kg-1 LBM min-1, P = 0.02) and the percentage maximal suppression of C-peptide (58 +/- 6% vs. 79 +/- 5%, P = 0.02) during the clamp were reduced. Fasting plasma free fatty acid (FFA) and glycerol levels were similar in the two groups, but their percentage maximal suppression during the clamp was reduced in the elderly group (FFA 45 +/- 5% vs. 77 +/- 6%, P = 0.001; glycerol 43 +/- 5% vs. 76 +/- 3%, P = 0.001). Branched-chain amino acids (valine, leucine, isoleucine) and glucagon levels were similar in the two groups, both while fasting and during the clamp. Thus, insulin resistance in ageing appears selective on glucose utilization, inhibition of lipolysis and feedback inhibition of the B-cell secretion.
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- G Pagano
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Turin, Italy
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Gaspard UJ, Gottal JM, van den Brûle FA. Postmenopausal changes of lipid and glucose metabolism: a review of their main aspects. Maturitas 1995; 21:171-8. [PMID: 7616865 DOI: 10.1016/0378-5122(95)00901-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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In postmenopausal women, partly in relation to advancing age and partly due to oestrogen deficiency, there is a frequent increase in body weight, and more specifically, in android fat distribution. In addition, loss of ovarian function is associated with the development of a more atherogenic profile with increased triglycerides, LDL-cholesterol and its smaller dense subfractions, decreased HDL- and HDL2-cholesterol and, potentially, an irregular increase in Lp(a). Not only does oestrogen therapy counteract all these changes towards a definitely less atherogenic profile but oestrogens seem also implicated in reducing LDL oxidative products, in favouring a higher ratio of prostacyclin to thromboxane and, potentially, of endothelium derived relaxing factor to endothelin, and also in acting as a calcium antagonist in the vessel wall. All of these favourable vascular effects are not solely attributable to lipid-related oestrogen effects. Excess weight and central obesity, diet changes and lack of exercise, more frequent with advancing age, all concur to alter glucose tolerance and increase insulin resistance during the postmenopause. Impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes mellitus may be found in nearly 20% of women aged 55 to 65 years. In addition, oestrogen deficiency may be further responsible for decreased pancreatic insulin secretion and alteration of its metabolic clearance rate-changes that can be reversed toward improved insulin secretion and sensitivity by oestrogen treatment in small dosages. By contrast, synthetic androgenic progestins can counteract these effects of oestrogens more than progesterone derivatives do, and they may partly help to promote insulin resistance and hyperinsulinism.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- U J Gaspard
- Department of Gynecology, Sart Tilman University Hospital, University of Liège, Belgium
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Tessari P. Effects of insulin on whole-body and regional amino acid metabolism. DIABETES/METABOLISM REVIEWS 1994; 10:253-85. [PMID: 7835172 DOI: 10.1002/dmr.5610100304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- P Tessari
- Department of Metabolism, University of Padova, Italy
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The effect of diabetes in pregnancy on leucine turnover and oxidation was examined in 12 insulin-dependent diabetic (IDDM) subjects and 12 gestationally diabetic (GDM) subjects during the third trimester of pregnancy. The data were compared with those in normal pregnant women studied during the same time period and reported previously. Eight of the IDDM subjects were on continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (insulin pump), and four were on conventional twice-daily insulin treatment. Of the GDM group, seven were on insulin therapy and five were on dietary management. Leucine kinetics were quantified using [1-13C]leucine tracer in combination with respiratory calorimetry and measurement of lean body mass using the H2[18O] dilution method. In addition, glucose kinetics were measured in insulin-treated subjects using [6,6(2)H2]glucose tracer. Despite rigorous metabolic control, fasting plasma glucose (IDDM 5.5 +/- 1.9 mmol/L [P < .05], GDM 4.7 +/- 1.3 [P < .01], controls 3.6 +/- .6, mean +/- SD) and hemoglobin A1 ([HbA1] IDDM 7.9 +/- 1.9%, GDM 7.5% +/- 2.1%) levels were higher in diabetic subjects. Although total insulin levels were higher in insulin-treated diabetic subjects, free-insulin concentrations were similar in all groups. Rates of excretion of urinary urea nitrogen and respiratory quotients were also similar. The rate of glucose turnover was lower in insulin-treated subjects compared with normals. Leucine flux, a measure of the rate of protein breakdown, and leucine oxidation were higher in IDDM and insulin-treated GDM subjects. The rate of leucine oxidation was increased in conventionally managed IDDM and insulin-treated GDM subjects.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- S C Kalhan
- Perinatal Emphasis Research Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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Yarasheski KE, Zachwieja JJ, Bier DM. Acute effects of resistance exercise on muscle protein synthesis rate in young and elderly men and women. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1993; 265:E210-4. [PMID: 8368290 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1993.265.2.e210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Muscle mass and function are improved in the elderly during resistance exercise training. These improvements must result from alterations in the rates of muscle protein synthesis and breakdown. We determined the rate of quadriceps muscle protein synthesis using the in vivo rate of incorporation of intravenously infused [13C]leucine into mixed-muscle protein in both young (24 yr) and elderly (63-66 yr) men and women before and at the end of 2 wk of resistance exercise training. Before training, the fractional rate of muscle protein synthesis was lower in the elderly than in the young (0.030 +/- 0.003 vs. 0.049 +/- 0.004%/h; P = 0.004) but increased (P < 0.03) to a comparable rate of muscle protein synthesis in both young (0.075 +/- 0.009%/h) and elderly subjects (0.076 +/- 0.011%/h) after 2 wk of exercise. In the elderly, muscle mass, 24-h urinary 3-methylhistidine and creatinine excretion, and whole body protein breakdown rate determined during the [13C]leucine infusion were not changed after 2 wk of exercise. These findings demonstrate that, during the initial phase of a resistance exercise training program, a marked increase in quadriceps muscle protein synthesis rate occurs in elderly and young adults without an increase in the rate of whole body protein breakdown. In the elderly, this was not accompanied by an increase in urinary 3-methylhistidine excretion, an index of myofibrillar protein breakdown.
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- K E Yarasheski
- Metabolism Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Lacour F, Espinal J, Arnaud O, Duhault J. Improvement in glucose tolerance of insulin resistant rats after chronic or acute administration of benfluorex. Life Sci 1993; 53:1525-9. [PMID: 8412519 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(93)90560-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The effects of Benfluorex administration on glucose tolerance have been examined in young and old Sprague Dawley rats. The ageing rats were used as a model of insulin resistance. Chronic oral administration of Benfluorex decreased triglycerides levels and normalized glucose tolerance in ageing rats, independently of effects on body weight. Acute intraportal administration of 0.45 mg/kg/h of Benfluorex for 30 min resulted in a 50% increase in glucose tolerance in old rats, but did not modify that in young rats. The improved glucose tolerance brought about by Benfluorex in an animal model of insulin resistance may suggest a wider therapeutic application in man, to include insulin resistant states as type II diabetes or Syndrome X.
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- F Lacour
- Division of Metabolic Diseases, Institut de Recherches SERVIER, Suresnes, France
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Gumbiner B, Thorburn AW, Ditzler TM, Bulacan F, Henry RR. Role of impaired intracellular glucose metabolism in the insulin resistance of aging. Metabolism 1992; 41:1115-21. [PMID: 1406297 DOI: 10.1016/0026-0495(92)90296-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The insulin resistance of aging is characterized by both reduced glucose uptake and impaired intracellular glucose metabolism. The aim of this study was to determine whether impaired intracellular glucose metabolism contributes to insulin resistance in the elderly independent of reduced glucose uptake. To address this question, glucose uptake in non-obese elderly males was matched to controls using the glucose clamp technique, and intracellular glucose metabolism was assessed in vivo by indirect calorimetry and in vitro by skeletal muscle biopsy for glycogen synthase activity. When elderly subjects were compared with controls at an equivalent basal glucose uptake of approximately 2.5 mg/kg fat-free mass (FFM)/min, muscle glycogen synthase activity was similar (fractional velocity of glycogen synthase at 0.1 mmol/L glucose-6-phosphate [FV0.1], 0.06 +/- 0.1 and 0.07 +/- 0.1), but whole-body rates of glucose oxidation were reduced (1.36 +/- 0.12 v 1.90 +/- 0.11 mg/kg FFM/min, P less than .05). During 40-mU/m2/min hyperinsulinemic clamps at matched rates of glucose uptake (approximately 10.7 mg/kg FFM/min in both groups), glycogen synthase activity was again similar (FV0.1, 0.15 +/- 0.02 and 0.14 +/- 0.02), and glucose oxidation remained reduced in the elderly (4.18 +/- 0.25 v 4.77 +/- 0.17 mg/kg FFM/min, P less than .05). Only during clamps in the maximal range of glucose uptake (approximately 29.5 mg/kg FFM/min) was glucose oxidation between the groups comparable (5.97 +/- 0.50 and 5.75 +/- 0.31 mg/kg FFM/min). Plasma free fatty acid (FFA) concentrations, fat oxidation, and protein oxidation were similar under all study conditions.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- B Gumbiner
- Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, NY
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Franssila-Kallunki A, Schalin-Jäntti C, Groop L. Effect of gender on insulin resistance associated with aging. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1992; 263:E780-5. [PMID: 1415700 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1992.263.4.e780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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To examine whether age-related changes in energy metabolism are influenced by gender, 20 females and 20 males varying in age from 21 to 80 yr were studied with euglycemic insulin clamp in combination with indirect calorimetry and infusion of [3-3H]glucose. Lean body mass (LBM) was measured with the tritiated water technique. Fat percentage correlated with age in males (r = 0.60; P < 0.05) but not in females. Although the rates of insulin-stimulated total glucose disposal and nonoxidative glucose metabolism were similar in females and males, nonoxidative glucose metabolism expressed per kilogram body weight (r = -0.64; P < 0.01) or per kilogram LBM (r = -0.46; P < 0.05) was inversely correlated with age only in males. Basal metabolic rate expressed per kilogram body weight decreased with age in both sexes, but no correlation with age was observed when data were expressed per kilogram LBM. The data clearly demonstrate different effects of age on energy metabolism in males and females.
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Baillie AG, Garlick PJ. Attenuated responses of muscle protein synthesis to fasting and insulin in adult female rats. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1992; 262:E1-5. [PMID: 1733239 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1992.262.1.e1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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One-year-old adult female rats were fasted for 12 or 36 h followed by a 30-min infusion of insulin. The responses of the fractional rate of protein synthesis (Ks) in the individual muscles (measured in vivo) to fasting were small and mostly nonsignificant. After 12 h of fasting, only the epitrochlearis muscle (ET) showed a significant decrease in Ks, and, even after 36 h of fasting, a significant decrease in Ks was seen in only ET, extensor digitorum longus, and tensor fasciae latae (TFL). After the 36-h fast, infusion of insulin restored the fed Ks in all muscles except TFL. The fiber-type composition of the individual muscles appeared to influence the muscles' responsiveness to the fasting, since the highly glycolytic TFL was the most sensitive (particularly after 36 h of fasting), whereas the highly oxidative adductor longus and soleus muscles were unaffected by either fasting or insulin. In a second experiment, refeeding of fasted adult rats also had little effect on Ks, consistent with the low sensitivity to fasting shown by the first experiment. The parallel results in the two experiments confirmed that the low responsiveness to fasting and insulin infusion in these adult rats was not a result of failure to absorb in "fed" animals or insufficient levels of insulin during insulin infusions. In contrast, a third experiment showed that muscle protein synthesis in the gastrocnemius muscle from young adult (5-mo-old) female rats was significantly reduced after only 12 h of fasting.
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- A G Baillie
- Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Young VR. Nutrient interactions with reference to amino acid and protein metabolism in non-ruminants; particular emphasis on protein-energy relations in man. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ERNAHRUNGSWISSENSCHAFT 1991; 30:239-67. [PMID: 1788993 DOI: 10.1007/bf01651955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Because the regulation of protein and energy balance is of major research interest in the nutrition and physiology of humans and animals, a selected account of interactions between protein and energy is given here, with particular emphasis on studies in human subjects. The discussion begins with reference to the relations between protein and energy intakes and nitrogen balance; selected aspects of the relations between protein dynamics and energy metabolism among the various mammalian species are then considered. This leads to a brief account of oxidative amino acid catabolism and its relevance to the assessment of amino acid requirements, particularly in adult man. It is concluded that obligatory oxidative losses of amino acids can be used to predict or approximate amino acid requirements in children and adults. The nitrogen-sparing properties of carbohydrate and lipid-derived fuels are then considered. Despite the well-known and profound, yet differential, impacts of dietary protein and energy sources, and their interactions on body protein balance, there remain wide gaps in our understanding of the mechanisms responsible for their effects, such as the quantitative and mechanistic involvement of hormones, including insulin and the counter-regulatory hormones, and the roles played by the major amino acids responsible for the interorgan transport of nitrogen and the regulation of urea production. Additional studies focusing on metabolic nitrogen trafficking would significantly enhance an understanding of how protein and energy interact to achieve the efficient utilization of dietary protein for maintenance and promotion of lean body gain.
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- V R Young
- Laboratory of Human Nutrition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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The effects of insulin resistance on glucose and amino acid metabolism were studied in obese nondiabetic women (body mass index [BMI], (32.8 +/- 2) and in lean controls. Glucose disposal rate, hepatic glucose production, and leucine carbon flux and oxidation were simultaneously measured during the postabsorptive state and during euglycemic hyperinsulinemia, by means of primed, constant infusions of D-[6,6-2H2]glucose and L-[1-13C]leucine. Each subject participated in two insulin clamp studies on separate days, at infusion rates of 10 and 40 mU (m2.min)-1, producing plasma insulin levels of 20 to 25 and 70 to 80 microU/mL, respectively. Fat-free mass (FFM) was calculated from underwater weighing measurements. Insulin-mediated glucose disposal rate was significantly slower in the obese group: 2.05 +/- 0.05 versus 3.84 +/- 0.18 mg (kg.min)-1 in controls during the 10-mU insulin clamp, and 3.80 +/- 0.23 versus 9.16 +/- 0.47 mg (kg.min)-1 during the 40-mU clamp. The insulin-induced decrease in plasma levels of branched chain amino acids was also significantly blunted in the obese group. Baseline leucine flux was similar in lean and obese subjects (78 +/- 3 and 71 +/- 2 mumol (kg.h)-1, respectively), and its decline in response to insulin infusion was also comparable (8% and 10% during the 10-mU/m2 clamp, and of 17% and 18% during the 40-mU/m2 clamp in lean and obese, respectively). Basal leucine carbon oxidation (from [13C]leucine and [13C]alpha ketoisocaproate [alpha-KIC] plasma enrichments) was also similar in lean and obese, and did not change significantly with insulin infusion.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- B Caballero
- Clinical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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Beccaro F, Pacini G, Valerio A, Nosadini R, Crepaldi G. Age and glucose tolerance in healthy subjects. AGING (MILAN, ITALY) 1990; 2:277-82. [PMID: 2094366 DOI: 10.1007/bf03323933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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An important and still controversial issue is the role played by the aging process itself in the metabolic alterations observed in aged people. We previously reported that a group of normal elderly people exhibited glucose disposal comparable to that of young controls. In the present study we investigated the effect of age on beta-cell secretion, by analyzing C-peptide measurements. Ten elderly men (E, 70 +/- 2 years) with normal oral glucose test and ten young subjects (Y, 27 +/- 1 years) with matching ideal body weight formed the study group. They were studied under highly dynamic conditions by means of a 0.3 g/kg i.v. glucose tolerance test. Fasting glucose and insulin were not different in the two groups (Y: 87 +/- 2 mg/di, E: 88 +/- 3, p greater than 0.1; Y: 50 +/- 7 pM, E: 36 +/- 7, p greater than 0.05). Glucose-insulin data set was analyzed by means of the minimal model of glucose disappearance which provided two parameters for every individual, yielding a quantitative description of glucose utilization: i.e., SI, the index of insulin sensitivity, and SG, the fractional glucose disappearance at basal insulin (glucose effectiveness). Both parameters were unaltered by age (SI = Y: 6.30 +/- 0.41 10(-4)min-1/(microU/ml), E: 7.11 +/- 0.72, p greater than 0.1; SG = Y: 0.020 +/- 0.003 min-1, E: 0.019 +/- 0.002, p greater than 0.1). C-peptide time course in elderly people was systematically lower than in the control group (basal levels: Y: 252 +/- 36 pM, E: 129 +/- 17, p less than 0.005).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Wimmer M, Luttringer C, Colombi M. Enzyme activity patterns of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, pyruvate kinase, glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase and malic enzyme in human liver. HISTOCHEMISTRY 1990; 93:409-15. [PMID: 2323955 DOI: 10.1007/bf00315859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The distribution patterns of the enzyme activities of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, pyruvate kinase, glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase and malic enzyme were determined in the liver acini of men and women by microquantitative means. The activity of PEPCK was higher in men compared to the activity in women. In both sexes no heterotopic distribution pattern was observed. PK activity of men was higher, but in both sexes no heterotopic distribution was detectable. G6PDH and ME showed relatively low activity. The distribution of G6PDH and ME activity was to some extent different in men and women. Yet their heterotopic patterns were not particularly distinct.
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- M Wimmer
- Anatomisches Institut, Universität Basel
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Age-related changes in body composition may result in varied responses to acute accidental injury. Gaining fat as age advances is common and therefore the mobilization of fat fuel resources in traumatized geriatric patients needs closer examination. We have measured in six elderly (age, 60 to 74 years) and seven young (age, 18 to 46) traumatized, hypermetabolic, and highly catabolic patients, in the "flow phase" of the metabolic response to injury, the rates of whole-body lipolysis and net fat oxidation. This enabled us to calculate the rate of triglyceride/free fatty acid (TG/FFA) cycling in the whole body and to assess its contribution to energy expenditure. Energy metabolism in general and the fat metabolism in particular were found to be somewhat slowed in elderly trauma patients compared with equally injured young individuals, although the aged patients had more total body fat. The energy cost of TG/FFA cycling is significantly (P less than .025) lower in elderly trauma victims (0.28 +/- 0.06 kcal/kg/d) compared with young patients (0.63 +/- 0.1 kcal/kg/d). This can account for approximately 3% to 4% of the elevation in metabolic rate over that predicted in the uninjured state.
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- M Jeevanandam
- Trauma Center, St Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85013
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