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Arora R, Kaur M, Kumar A, Chhabra P, Mir MA, Ahlawat S, Singh MK, Sharma R, Gera R. Skeletal muscle transcriptomics of sheep acclimated to cold desert and tropical regions identifies genes and pathways accentuating their diversity. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY 2024:10.1007/s00484-024-02708-3. [PMID: 38814475 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-024-02708-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024]
Abstract
The current study attempts to investigate the differences in gene expression in longissimus thoracis muscles between sheep breeds acclimated to diverse environments. Changthangi sheep inhabits the cold arid plateau of Ladakh, at an altitude above 3000 m with prevalence of rarefied atmosphere. Muzzafarnagri sheep, on the other hand is found in the sub-tropical hot and humid plains at an altitude of about 250 m. Comparative transcriptomics was used to provide a molecular perspective of the differential adaptation of the two breeds. RNA sequencing data was generated from four biological replicates of the longissimus thoracis muscles from both breeds. The common genes expressed in both breeds were involved in muscle contraction and muscle fibre organization. The most significant pathways enriched in Changthangi muscles were glycogen metabolism, reduction of cytosolic Ca++ levels and NFE2L2 regulating anti-oxidant, while those in Muzzafarnagri were extracellular matrix organization and collagen formation. The hub genes identified in Changthangi were involved in hematopoiesis and HIF signaling pathway, suggesting the molecular acclimatization of Changthangi to the high altitude cold desert of Ladakh. The nodal genes discovered in Muzzafarnagri sheep were associated with the extracellular matrix which accentuates its significance in the development, growth and repair of muscles. The observed transcriptomic differences underscore the morphological and adaptive disparity between the two breeds. The candidate genes and pathways identified in this study will form the basis for future research on adaptation to high altitude and body size in small ruminants.
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- Reena Arora
- ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, G T Road By-Pass, P O Box 129, Karnal, 132001, Haryana, India.
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- ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, G T Road By-Pass, P O Box 129, Karnal, 132001, Haryana, India
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- ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, G T Road By-Pass, P O Box 129, Karnal, 132001, Haryana, India
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- ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, G T Road By-Pass, P O Box 129, Karnal, 132001, Haryana, India
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- Shere Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Shuhama, Aulestang, 190006, Kashmir, India
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- ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, G T Road By-Pass, P O Box 129, Karnal, 132001, Haryana, India
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- ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Goats, Makhdoom, Farah, Mathura, 281122, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, G T Road By-Pass, P O Box 129, Karnal, 132001, Haryana, India
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- ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, G T Road By-Pass, P O Box 129, Karnal, 132001, Haryana, India
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Kindlovits R, Pereira AMDS, Sousa AC, Viana JL, Teixeira VH. Effects of Acute and Chronic Exercise in Hypoxia on Cardiovascular and Glycemic Parameters in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review. High Alt Med Biol 2022; 23:301-312. [PMID: 36036723 DOI: 10.1089/ham.2022.0029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Kindlovits, Raquel, Alberto Mello da Silva Pereira, Ana Catarina Sousa, João Luís Viana,and Vitor Hugo Teixeira. Effects of acute and chronic exercise in hypoxia on cardiovascular and glycemic parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review. High Alt Med Biol. 23:301-312, 2022. Background: Exercise in hypoxia (EH, decreased oxygen availability) has been proposed as a potential therapeutic intervention to promote angiogenesis and improve glucose metabolism to a greater extent than exercise under normoxia (normal ambient air) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Currently, there are no studies that systematize the existent evidence. This study aims to systematically review the literature and qualitatively evaluate the effects of acute and chronic EH on cardiovascular and glycemic parameters in T2D patients. Methods: A structured search was carried out following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines until March 2021, in the MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) randomized and nonrandomized trials, (2) in complication-free patients with T2D, (3) in which EH was compared with exercise in normoxia or with baseline data, and (4) published in English. Results: Six articles (64 subjects) met the inclusion criteria and were reviewed to data extraction. Four articles investigated the acute effect of EH (33 subjects), and two articles investigated the chronic effect of EH (31 subjects), ranging from 6 to 8 weeks. All studies used a cycle ergometer as exercise. Acute EH benefits insulin sensitivity, blood glucose, vascular endothelial growth factor, and metalloproteinase-9, while chronic EH benefits nitric oxide synthase in erythrocytes, but not brachial artery flow-mediated dilation. Conclusion: Acute EH improves glucose homeostasis in T2D patients, which was not seen with chronic EH. Both acute EH and chronic EH improve angiogenesis regulators, but not vascular function. Despite the putative benefits of EH in patients with T2D, the evidence is still scarce and further research is needed before recommendations can be provided.
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- Raquel Kindlovits
- Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto (FCNAUP), Porto, Portugal
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- Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD), University of Maia, Maia, Portugal
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- Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD), University of Maia, Maia, Portugal
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- Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto (FCNAUP), Porto, Portugal.,Research Center in Physical Activity, Health and Leisure (CIAFEL), Faculty of Sports, University of Porto (FADEUP), Portugal.,Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR), Porto, Portugal
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Rathor R, Suryakumar G, Singh SN. Diet and redox state in maintaining skeletal muscle health and performance at high altitude. Free Radic Biol Med 2021; 174:305-320. [PMID: 34352371 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2021.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Revised: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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High altitude exposure leads to compromised physical performance with considerable weight loss. The major stressor at high altitude is hypobaric hypoxia which leads to disturbance in redox homeostasis. Oxidative stress is a well-known trigger for many high altitude illnesses and regulates several key signaling pathways under stressful conditions. Altered redox homeostasis is considered the prime culprit of high altitude linked skeletal muscle atrophy. Hypobaric hypoxia disturbs redox homeostasis through increased RONS production and compromised antioxidant system. Increased RONS disturbs the cellular homeostasis via multiple ways such as inflammation generation, altered protein anabolic pathways, redox remodeling of RyR1 that contributed to dysregulated calcium homeostasis, enhanced protein degradation pathways via activation calcium-regulated protein, calpain, and apoptosis. Ultimately, all the cellular signaling pathways aggregately result in skeletal muscle atrophy. Dietary supplementation of phytochemicals could become a safe and effective intervention to ameliorate skeletal muscle atrophy and enhance the physical performance of the personnel who are staying at high altitude regions. The present evidence-based review explores few dietary supplementations which regulate several signaling mechanisms and ameliorate hypobaric hypoxia induced muscle atrophy and enhances physical performance. However, a clinical research trial is required to establish proof-of-concept.
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- Richa Rathor
- Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Timarpur, New Delhi, 110054, India.
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- Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Timarpur, New Delhi, 110054, India
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- Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Timarpur, New Delhi, 110054, India
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Yap KN, Zhang Y. Revisiting the question of nucleated versus enucleated erythrocytes in birds and mammals. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2021; 321:R547-R557. [PMID: 34378417 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00276.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Erythrocyte enucleation is thought to have evolved in mammals to support their energetic cost of high metabolic activities. However, birds face similar selection pressure yet possess nucleated erythrocytes. Current hypotheses on the mammalian erythrocyte enucleation claim that the absence of cell organelles allows erythrocytes to 1) pack more hemoglobin into the cells to increase oxygen carrying capacity and 2) decrease erythrocyte size for increased surface area-to-volume ratio, and improved ability to traverse small capillaries. In this article, we first empirically tested current hypotheses using both conventional and phylogenetically informed analysis comparing literature values of mean cell hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) and mean cell volume (MCV) between 181 avian and 194 mammalian species. We found no difference in MCHC levels between birds and mammals using both conventional and phylogenetically corrected analysis. MCV was higher in birds than mammals according to conventional analysis, but the difference was lost when we controlled for phylogeny. These results suggested that avian and mammalian erythrocytes may employ different strategies to solve a common problem. To further investigate existing hypotheses or develop new hypothesis, we need to understand the functions of various organelles in avian erythrocytes. Consequently, we covered potential physiological functions of various cell organelles in avian erythrocytes based on current knowledge, while making explicit comparisons to their mammalian counterparts. Finally, we proposed by taking an integrative and comparative approach, using tools from molecular biology to evolutionary biology, would allow us to better understand the fundamental physiological functions of various components of avian and mammalian erythrocytes.
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- Kang Nian Yap
- Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States
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- School of Health Studies, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States
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Cong Q, Shen J, Zhang J, Li W, Kinch LN, Calhoun JV, Warren AD, Grishin NV. Genomics Reveals the Origins of Historical Specimens. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:2166-2176. [PMID: 33502509 PMCID: PMC8097301 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Centuries of zoological studies have amassed billions of specimens in collections worldwide. Genomics of these specimens promises to reinvigorate biodiversity research. However, because DNA degrades with age in historical specimens, it is a challenge to obtain genomic data for them and analyze degraded genomes. We developed experimental and computational protocols to overcome these challenges and applied our methods to resolve a series of long-standing controversies involving a group of butterflies. We deduced the geographical origins of several historical specimens of uncertain provenance that are at the heart of these debates. Here, genomics tackles one of the greatest problems in zoology: countless old specimens that serve as irreplaceable embodiments of species concepts cannot be confidently assigned to extant species or population due to the lack of diagnostic morphological features and clear documentation of the collection locality. The ability to determine where they were collected will resolve many on-going disputes. More broadly, we show the utility of applying genomics to historical museum specimens to delineate the boundaries of species and populations, and to hypothesize about genotypic determinants of phenotypic traits.
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- Qian Cong
- Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.,Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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Santocildes G, Viscor G, Pagès T, Ramos-Romero S, Torres JL, Torrella JR. Physiological Effects of Intermittent Passive Exposure to Hypobaric Hypoxia and Cold in Rats. Front Physiol 2021; 12:673095. [PMID: 34135770 PMCID: PMC8201611 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.673095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The benefits of intermittent hypobaric hypoxia (IHH) exposure for health and its potential use as a training tool are well-documented. However, since hypobaric hypoxia and cold are environmental factors always strongly associated in the biosphere, additive or synergistic adaptations could have evolved in animals’ genomes. For that reason, the aim of the present study was to investigate body composition and hematological and muscle morphofunctional responses to simultaneous intermittent exposure to hypoxia and cold. Adult male rats were randomly divided into four groups: (1) control, maintained in normoxia at 25°C (CTRL); (2) IHH exposed 4 h/day at 4,500 m (HYPO); (3) intermittent cold exposed 4 h/day at 4°C (COLD); and (4) simultaneously cold and hypoxia exposed (COHY). At the end of 9 and 21 days of exposure, blood was withdrawn and gastrocnemius (GAS) and tibialis anterior muscles, perigonadal and brown adipose tissue, diaphragm, and heart were excised. GAS transversal sections were stained for myofibrillar ATPase and succinate dehydrogenase for fiber typing and for endothelial ATPase to assess capillarization. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and glucose transporter 1 (GLUT1) from GAS samples were semi-quantified by Western blotting. COLD and HYPO underwent physiological adjustments such as higher brown adipose tissue weight and increase in blood-related oxygen transport parameters, while avoiding some negative effects of chronic exposure to cold and hypoxia, such as body weight and muscle mass loss. COHY presented an additive erythropoietic response and was prevented from right ventricle hypertrophy. Intermittent cold exposure induced muscle angiogenesis, and IHH seems to indicate better muscle oxygenation through fiber area reduction.
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- Garoa Santocildes
- Secció de Fisiologia, Departament de Biologia Cel.lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Secció de Fisiologia, Departament de Biologia Cel.lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Secció de Fisiologia, Departament de Biologia Cel.lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Secció de Fisiologia, Departament de Biologia Cel.lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Departament de Química Biològica, Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya (IQAC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Química Biològica, Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya (IQAC-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Secció de Fisiologia, Departament de Biologia Cel.lular, Fisiologia i Immunologia, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Brito J, Siques P, Pena E. Long-term chronic intermittent hypoxia: a particular form of chronic high-altitude pulmonary hypertension. Pulm Circ 2020; 10:5-12. [PMID: 33110494 PMCID: PMC7557688 DOI: 10.1177/2045894020934625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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In some subjects, high-altitude hypobaric hypoxia leads to high-altitude pulmonary
hypertension. The threshold for the diagnosis of high-altitude pulmonary hypertension is a
mean pulmonary artery pressure of 30 mmHg, even though for general pulmonary hypertension
is ≥25 mmHg. High-altitude pulmonary hypertension has been associated with high hematocrit
findings (chronic mountain sickness), and although these are two separate entities, they
have a synergistic effect that should be considered. In recent years, a new condition
associated with high altitude was described in South America named long-term chronic
intermittent hypoxia and has appeared in individuals who commute to work at high altitude
but live and rest at sea level. In this review, we discuss the initial epidemiological
pattern from the early studies done in Chile, the clinical presentation and possible
molecular mechanism and a discussion of the potential management of this condition.
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- Julio Brito
- Institute of Health Studies, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile.,Institute DECIPHER, German-Chilean Institute for Research on Pulmonary Hypoxia and Its Health Sequelae, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Health Studies, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile.,Institute DECIPHER, German-Chilean Institute for Research on Pulmonary Hypoxia and Its Health Sequelae, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Health Studies, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile.,Institute DECIPHER, German-Chilean Institute for Research on Pulmonary Hypoxia and Its Health Sequelae, Hamburg, Germany
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Dawson NJ, Alza L, Nandal G, Scott GR, McCracken KG. Convergent changes in muscle metabolism depend on duration of high-altitude ancestry across Andean waterfowl. eLife 2020; 9:e56259. [PMID: 32729830 PMCID: PMC7494360 DOI: 10.7554/elife.56259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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High-altitude environments require that animals meet the metabolic O2 demands for locomotion and thermogenesis in O2-thin air, but the degree to which convergent metabolic changes have arisen across independent high-altitude lineages or the speed at which such changes arise is unclear. We examined seven high-altitude waterfowl that have inhabited the Andes (3812-4806 m elevation) over varying evolutionary time scales, to elucidate changes in biochemical pathways of energy metabolism in flight muscle relative to low-altitude sister taxa. Convergent changes across high-altitude taxa included increased hydroxyacyl-coA dehydrogenase and succinate dehydrogenase activities, decreased lactate dehydrogenase, pyruvate kinase, creatine kinase, and cytochrome c oxidase activities, and increased myoglobin content. ATP synthase activity increased in only the longest established high-altitude taxa, whereas hexokinase activity increased in only newly established taxa. Therefore, changes in pathways of lipid oxidation, glycolysis, and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation are common strategies to cope with high-altitude hypoxia, but some changes require longer evolutionary time to arise.
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- Neal J Dawson
- Department of Biology, McMaster UniversityHamiltonCanada
- Department of Biology University of MiamiCoral GablesUnited States
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- Department of Biology University of MiamiCoral GablesUnited States
- University of Alaska Museum and Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska FairbanksFairbanksUnited States
- Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad - CORBIDILimaPeru
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- Department of Biology, McMaster UniversityHamiltonCanada
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- Department of Biology University of MiamiCoral GablesUnited States
- University of Alaska Museum and Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska FairbanksFairbanksUnited States
- Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad - CORBIDILimaPeru
- Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of MiamiMiamiUnited States
- Human Genetics and Genomics, Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of MedicineMiamiUnited States
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Martínez JI, Revollo GB, Alfaro EL, Grandi C, Dipierri JE. Proportionality indices, geographic altitude, and gestational age in newborns from Jujuy, Argentina. Am J Hum Biol 2020; 33:e23454. [PMID: 32592237 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Revised: 05/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There are several different proportionality indices (PRIs) to evaluate size at birth by gestational age (GA). Yet, the explanatory power of alternative PRIs has not been evaluated in highland (HL) populations. AIM Evaluate the relative utility of three PRIs, weight to length ratio (W/L), body mass index (BMI), and ponderal index (PI), for assessing nutritional status in newborns (NBs) from highland (HL ≥ 2000 m) and lowland (LL < 2000 m) regions of the Jujuy Province of Argentina. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Births were registered by the Ministry of Health (Jujuy, 2009-2014). Data were grouped according to HL and LL altitude groups based on of maternal residence. The main outcome measures were the PRIs W/L ratio, BMI, and PI. Percentiles were generated by the LMS method and compared with references. ANOVAs and Pearson correlations were used to examine the relationship between outcome measures with weight and length by altitude, sex, and GA. RESULTS In both altitude zones, W/L and BMI increased with GA, while PI stabilized between 37th and 42th weeks. The LL sample had significantly higher values for all the PRIs from the 37th week of GA. In the HL sample, the 50th percentiles for all three PRIs were lower than the reference. Regardless of GA and altitude level, BMI showed the lowest correlation with length and the higher with the weight. CONCLUSION The HL sample of term NBs had lower values for all PRIs compared to their LL counterparts. In both altitude zones, the BMI is the preferred PRI to evaluate the nutritional status.
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- Jorge I Martínez
- Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina.,Instituto de Biología de la Altura, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
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- Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina.,Instituto de Biología de la Altura, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
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- Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina.,Instituto de Biología de la Altura, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
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- Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina.,Instituto de Biología de la Altura, Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina
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Qu Y, Chen C, Xiong Y, She H, Zhang YE, Cheng Y, DuBay S, Li D, Ericson PGP, Hao Y, Wang H, Zhao H, Song G, Zhang H, Yang T, Zhang C, Liang L, Wu T, Zhao J, Gao Q, Zhai W, Lei F. Rapid phenotypic evolution with shallow genomic differentiation during early stages of high elevation adaptation in Eurasian Tree Sparrows. Natl Sci Rev 2019; 7:113-127. [PMID: 34692022 PMCID: PMC8289047 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwz138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Revised: 08/31/2019] [Accepted: 09/01/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Known as the ‘third polar region’, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau represents one of the harshest highland environments in the world and yet a number of organisms thrive there. Previous studies of birds, animals and humans have focused on well-differentiated populations in later stages of phenotypic divergence. The adaptive processes during the initial phase of highland adaptation remain poorly understood. We studied a human commensal, the Eurasian Tree Sparrow, which has followed human agriculture to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Despite strong phenotypic differentiation at multiple levels, in particular in muscle-related phenotypes, highland and lowland populations show shallow genomic divergence and the colonization event occurred within the past few thousand years. In a one-month acclimation experiment investigating phenotypic plasticity, we exposed adult lowland tree sparrows to a hypoxic environment and did not observe muscle changes. Through population genetic analyses, we identified a signature of polygenic adaptation, whereby shifts in allele frequencies are spread across multiple loci, many of which are associated with muscle-related processes. Our results reveal a case of positive selection in which polygenic adaptation appears to drive rapid phenotypic evolution, shedding light on early stages of adaptive evolution to a novel environment.
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- Yanhua Qu
- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Life Sciences Section, Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518084, China
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- China National GeneBank, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518120, China
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518084, China
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518084, China
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518084, China
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518084, China
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- BGI Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Singapore 138672, Singapore
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- Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
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Role of altered proteostasis network in chronic hypobaric hypoxia induced skeletal muscle atrophy. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0204283. [PMID: 30240405 PMCID: PMC6150520 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Background High altitude associated hypobaric hypoxia is one of the cellular and environmental perturbation that alters proteostasis network and push the healthy cell towards loss of muscle mass. The present study has elucidated the robust proteostasis network and signaling mechanism for skeletal muscle atrophy under chronic hypobaric hypoxia (CHH). Methods Male Sprague Dawley rats were exposed to simulated hypoxia equivalent to a pressure of 282 torr for different durations (1, 3, 7 and 14 days). After CHH exposure, skeletal muscle tissue was excised from the hind limb of rats for biochemical analysis. Results Chronic hypobaric hypoxia caused a substantial increase in protein oxidation and exhibited a greater activation of ER chaperones, glucose-regulated protein-78 (GRP-78) and protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) till 14d of CHH. Presence of oxidized proteins triggered the proteolytic systems, 20S proteasome and calpain pathway which were accompanied by a marked increase in [Ca2+]. Upregulated Akt pathway was observed upto 07d of CHH which was also linked with enhanced glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSk-3β) expression, a negative regulator of Akt. Muscle-derived cytokines, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interferon-ϒ (IFN-©) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β) levels significantly increased from 07d onwards. CHH exposure also upregulated the expression of nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) and E3 ligase, muscle atrophy F-box-1 (Mafbx-1/Atrogin-1) and MuRF-1 (muscle ring finger-1) on 07d and 14d. Further, severe hypoxia also lead to increase expression of ER-associated degradation (ERAD) CHOP/ GADD153, Ub-proteasome and apoptosis pathway. Conclusions The disrupted proteostasis network was tightly coupled to degradative pathways, altered anabolic signaling, inflammation, and apoptosis under chronic hypoxia. Severe and prolonged hypoxia exposure affected the protein homeostasis which overwhelms the muscular system and tends towards skeletal muscle atrophy.
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Dawson NJ, Lyons SA, Henry DA, Scott GR. Effects of chronic hypoxia on diaphragm function in deer mice native to high altitude. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2018; 223:e13030. [PMID: 29316265 DOI: 10.1111/apha.13030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 12/08/2017] [Accepted: 12/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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AIM We examined the effects of chronic hypoxia on diaphragm function in high- and low-altitude populations of Peromyscus mice. METHODS Deer mice (P. maniculatus) native to high altitude and congeneric mice native to low altitude (P. leucopus) were born and raised in captivity to adulthood and were acclimated to normoxia or hypobaric hypoxia (12 or 9 kPa, simulating hypoxia at 4300 and 7000 m) for 6-8 weeks. We then measured indices of mitochondrial respiration capacity, force production, and fatigue resistance in the diaphragm. RESULTS Mitochondrial respiratory capacities (assessed using permeabilized fibres with single or multiple inputs to the electron transport system), citrate synthase activity (a marker of mitochondrial volume), twitch force production, and muscle fatigue resistance increased after exposure to chronic hypoxia in both populations. These changes were not well explained by variation in the fibre-type composition of the muscle. However, there were several differences in diaphragm function in high-altitude mice compared to low-altitude mice. Exposure to a deeper level of hypoxia (9 kPa vs 12 kPa) was needed to elicit increases in mitochondrial respiration rates in highlanders. Chronic hypoxia did not increase the emission of reactive oxygen species from permeabilized fibres in highlanders, in contrast to the pronounced increases that occurred in lowlanders. In general, the diaphragm of high-altitude mice had greater capillary length densities, produced less force in response to stimulation and had shorter relaxation times. The latter was associated with higher activity of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ -ATPase (SERCA) activity in the diaphragm of high-altitude mice. CONCLUSION Overall, our work suggests that exposure to chronic hypoxia increases the capacities for mitochondrial respiration, force production and fatigue resistance of the diaphragm. However, many of these effects are opposed by evolved changes in diaphragm function in high-altitude natives, such that highlanders in chronic hypoxia maintain similar diaphragm function to lowlanders in sea level conditions.
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- N. J. Dawson
- Department of Biology; McMaster University; Hamilton ON Canada
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- Department of Biology; McMaster University; Hamilton ON Canada
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- Department of Biology; McMaster University; Hamilton ON Canada
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- Department of Biology; McMaster University; Hamilton ON Canada
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Nikel KE, Shanishchara NK, Ivy CM, Dawson NJ, Scott GR. Effects of hypoxia at different life stages on locomotory muscle phenotype in deer mice native to high altitudes. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 2017; 224:98-104. [PMID: 29175484 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2017.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Accepted: 11/17/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Animals native to high altitude must overcome the constraining effects of hypoxia on tissue O2 supply to support routine metabolism, thermoregulation in the cold, and exercise. Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) native to high altitude have evolved an enhanced aerobic capacity in hypoxia, along with increased capillarity and oxidative capacity of locomotory muscle. Here, we examined whether exposure to chronic hypoxia during development or adulthood affects muscle phenotype. Deer mice from a highland population were bred in captivity at sea level, and exposed to normoxia or one of four treatments of hypobaric hypoxia (12kPa O2, simulating hypoxia at ~4300m): adult hypoxia (6-8weeks), post-natal hypoxia (birth to adulthood), pre-natal hypoxia (before conception to adulthood), and parental hypoxia (in which mice were conceived and raised in normoxia, but their parents were previously exposed to hypoxia). Litter size was similar across treatments, and pups survived the hypoxia exposures and grew to similar body masses at ~6-8months of age. Hypoxia had no effect on the masses of gastrocnemius and soleus muscles. There was a strong concordance between two distinct histological methods for staining capillaries in the gastrocnemius - alkaline phosphatase activity and binding of Griffonia simplicifolia lectin I - each of which showed that capillarity and muscle fibre size were largely unaffected by hypoxia. Maximal activities of several metabolic enzymes (cytochrome c oxidase, citrate synthase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, and lactate dehydrogenase) in the gastrocnemius were also largely unaffected by hypoxia. Therefore, the evolved muscle phenotype of high-altitude deer mice is relatively insensitive to hypoxia across life stages.
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- Kirsten E Nikel
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
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Mahalingam S, McClelland GB, Scott GR. Evolved changes in the intracellular distribution and physiology of muscle mitochondria in high-altitude native deer mice. J Physiol 2017; 595:4785-4801. [PMID: 28418073 DOI: 10.1113/jp274130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Mitochondrial function changes over time at high altitudes, but the potential benefits of these changes for hypoxia resistance remains unclear. We used high-altitude-adapted populations of deer mice, which exhibit enhanced aerobic performance in hypoxia, to examine whether changes in mitochondrial physiology or intracellular distribution in the muscle contribute to hypoxia resistance. Permeabilized muscle fibres from the gastrocnemius muscle had higher respiratory capacities in high-altitude mice than in low-altitude mice. Highlanders also had higher mitochondrial volume densities, due entirely to an enriched abundance of subsarcolemmal mitochondria, such that more mitochondria were situated near the cell membrane and adjacent to capillaries. There were several effects of hypoxia acclimation on mitochondrial function, some of which were population specific, but they differed from the evolved changes in high-altitude natives, which probably provide a better indication of adaptive traits that improve performance and hypoxia resistance at high altitudes. ABSTRACT High-altitude natives that have evolved to live in hypoxic environments provide a compelling system to understand how animals can overcome impairments in oxygen availability. We examined whether these include changes in mitochondrial physiology or intracellular distribution that contribute to hypoxia resistance in high-altitude deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). Mice from populations native to high and low altitudes were born and raised in captivity, and as adults were acclimated to normoxia or hypobaric hypoxia (equivalent to 4300 m elevation). We found that highlanders had higher respiratory capacities in the gastrocnemius (but not soleus) muscle than lowlanders (assessed using permeabilized fibres with single or multiple inputs to the electron transport system), due in large part to higher mitochondrial volume densities in the gastrocnemius. The latter was attributed to an increased abundance of subsarcolemmal (but not intermyofibrillar) mitochondria, such that more mitochondria were situated near the cell membrane and adjacent to capillaries. Hypoxia acclimation had no significant effect on these population differences, but it did increase mitochondrial cristae surface densities of mitochondria in both populations. Hypoxia acclimation also altered the physiology of isolated mitochondria by affecting respiratory capacities and cytochrome c oxidase activities in population-specific manners. Chronic hypoxia decreased the release of reactive oxygen species by isolated mitochondria in both populations. There were subtle differences in O2 kinetics between populations, with highlanders exhibiting increased mitochondrial O2 affinity or catalytic efficiency in some conditions. Our results suggest that evolved changes in mitochondrial physiology in high-altitude natives are distinct from the effects of hypoxia acclimation, and probably provide a better indication of adaptive traits that improve performance and hypoxia resistance at high altitudes.
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- Sajeni Mahalingam
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1
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Agrawal A, Rathor R, Suryakumar G. Oxidative protein modification alters proteostasis under acute hypobaric hypoxia in skeletal muscles: a comprehensive in vivo study. Cell Stress Chaperones 2017; 22:429-443. [PMID: 28425050 PMCID: PMC5425375 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-017-0795-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Revised: 03/28/2017] [Accepted: 03/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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While numerous maladies are associated with hypobaric hypoxia, muscle protein loss is an important under studied topic. Hence, the present study was designed to investigate the mechanism of muscle protein loss at HH. SD rats were divided into normoxic rats, while remaining rats were exposed to simulated hypoxia equivalent to 282-torr pressure (equal to an altitude of 7620 m, 8% oxygen), at 25 °C for 6, 12, and 24 h. Post-exposure rats were sacrificed and analysis was performed. Ergo, muscle loss-related changes were observed at 12 and 24 h post-HH exposure. An increased reactive oxygen species production and decreased thiol content was observed in HH-exposed rats. This disturbance caused substantial protein oxidative modification in the form of protein carbonyl content and advanced oxidation protein products. The analysis showed increase levels of bityrosine, oxidized tryptophan, lysine conjugate, lysine conjugate with MDA, protein hydroperoxide, and protein-MDA product. These changes were also in agreement with increase in lipid hydroperoxides and MDA content. HSP-70 and HSP-60 were upregulated significantly, and this finding is corroborated with increase in ER stress biomarker, GRP-78. Overloading of cells with misfolded proteins further activated degradative machinery. Consequently, pro-apoptotic signaling cascade, caspase-3, and C/EBP homologous protein were also activated in 24-h HH exposure. Release of tryptophan and tyrosine was also increased with 24-h HH exposure, indicated protein degradation. Elevation in resting intracellular calcium ion, [Ca2+]i, was also observed at 12- and 24-h HH exposure. The present study provides a detailed mechanistic representation of muscle protein loss during HH exposure.
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- Akanksha Agrawal
- Cellular Biochemistry Division, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Timarpur, Delhi -54, India
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- Cellular Biochemistry Division, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Timarpur, Delhi -54, India.
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- Cellular Biochemistry Division, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Timarpur, Delhi -54, India
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More than 140 million people permanently reside in high-altitude regions of Asia, South America, North America, and Africa. Another 40 million people travel to these places annually for occupational and recreational reasons, and are thus exposed to the low ambient partial pressure of oxygen. This review will focus on the pulmonary circulatory responses to acute and chronic high-altitude hypoxia, and the various expressions of maladaptation and disease arising from acute pulmonary vasoconstriction and subsequent remodeling of the vasculature when the hypoxic exposure continues. These unique conditions include high-altitude pulmonary edema, high-altitude pulmonary hypertension, subacute mountain sickness, and chronic mountain sickness.
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- Maniraj Neupane
- Mountain Medicine Society of Nepal, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Aerobic exercise training leads to cardiovascular changes that markedly increase aerobic power and lead to improved endurance performance. The functionally most important adaptation is the improvement in maximal cardiac output which is the result of an enlargement in cardiac dimension, improved contractility, and an increase in blood volume, allowing for greater filling of the ventricles and a consequent larger stroke volume. In parallel with the greater maximal cardiac output, the perfusion capacity of the muscle is increased, permitting for greater oxygen delivery. To accommodate the higher aerobic demands and perfusion levels, arteries, arterioles, and capillaries adapt in structure and number. The diameters of the larger conduit and resistance arteries are increased minimizing resistance to flow as the cardiac output is distributed in the body and the wall thickness of the conduit and resistance arteries is reduced, a factor contributing to increased arterial compliance. Endurance training may also induce alterations in the vasodilator capacity, although such adaptations are more pronounced in individuals with reduced vascular function. The microvascular net increases in size within the muscle allowing for an improved capacity for oxygen extraction by the muscle through a greater area for diffusion, a shorter diffusion distance, and a longer mean transit time for the erythrocyte to pass through the smallest blood vessels. The present article addresses the effect of endurance training on systemic and peripheral cardiovascular adaptations with a focus on humans, but also covers animal data.
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- Ylva Hellsten
- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Scott GR, Elogio TS, Lui MA, Storz JF, Cheviron ZA. Adaptive Modifications of Muscle Phenotype in High-Altitude Deer Mice Are Associated with Evolved Changes in Gene Regulation. Mol Biol Evol 2015; 32:1962-76. [PMID: 25851956 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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At high-altitude, small mammals are faced with the energetic challenge of sustaining thermogenesis and aerobic exercise in spite of the reduced O2 availability. Under conditions of hypoxic cold stress, metabolic demands of shivering thermogenesis and locomotion may require enhancements in the oxidative capacity and O2 diffusion capacity of skeletal muscle to compensate for the diminished tissue O2 supply. We used common-garden experiments involving highland and lowland deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) to investigate the transcriptional underpinnings of genetically based population differences and plasticity in muscle phenotype. We tested highland and lowland mice that were sampled in their native environments as well as lab-raised F1 progeny of wild-caught mice. Experiments revealed that highland natives had consistently greater oxidative fiber density and capillarity in the gastrocnemius muscle. RNA sequencing analyses revealed population differences in transcript abundance for 68 genes that clustered into two discrete transcriptional modules, and a large suite of transcripts (589 genes) with plastic expression patterns that clustered into five modules. The expression of two transcriptional modules was correlated with the oxidative phenotype and capillarity of the muscle, and these phenotype-associated modules were enriched for genes involved in energy metabolism, muscle plasticity, vascular development, and cell stress response. Although most of the individual transcripts that were differentially expressed between populations were negatively correlated with muscle phenotype, several genes involved in energy metabolism (e.g., Ckmt1, Ehhadh, Acaa1a) and angiogenesis (Notch4) were more highly expressed in highlanders, and the regulators of mitochondrial biogenesis, PGC-1α (Ppargc1a) and mitochondrial transcription factor A (Tfam), were positively correlated with muscle oxidative phenotype. These results suggest that evolved population differences in the oxidative capacity and capillarity of skeletal muscle involved expression changes in a small suite of coregulated genes.
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- Graham R Scott
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Gundling WE, Wildman DE. A review of inter- and intraspecific variation in the eutherian placenta. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 370:20140072. [PMID: 25602076 PMCID: PMC4305173 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The placenta is one of the most morphologically variable mammalian organs. Four major characteristics are typically discussed when comparing the placentas of different eutherian species: placental shape, maternal-fetal interdigitation, intimacy of the maternal-fetal interface and the pattern of maternal-fetal blood flow. Here, we describe the evolution of three of these features as well as other key aspects of eutherian placentation. In addition to interspecific anatomical variation, there is also variation in placental anatomy and function within a single species. Much of this intraspecific variation occurs in response to different environmental conditions such as altitude and poor maternal nutrition. Examinations of variation in the placenta from both intra- and interspecies perspectives elucidate different aspects of placental function and dysfunction at the maternal-fetal interface. Comparisons within species identify candidate mechanisms that are activated in response to environmental stressors ultimately contributing to the aetiology of obstetric syndromes such as pre-eclampsia. Comparisons above the species level identify the evolutionary lineages on which the potential for the development of obstetric syndromes emerged.
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- William E Gundling
- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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Lui MA, Mahalingam S, Patel P, Connaty AD, Ivy CM, Cheviron ZA, Storz JF, McClelland GB, Scott GR. High-altitude ancestry and hypoxia acclimation have distinct effects on exercise capacity and muscle phenotype in deer mice. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2015; 308:R779-91. [PMID: 25695288 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00362.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2014] [Accepted: 02/15/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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The hypoxic and cold environment at high altitudes requires that small mammals sustain high rates of O2 transport for exercise and thermogenesis while facing a diminished O2 availability. We used laboratory-born and -raised deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) from highland and lowland populations to determine the interactive effects of ancestry and hypoxia acclimation on exercise performance. Maximal O₂consumption (V̇o(2max)) during exercise in hypoxia increased after hypoxia acclimation (equivalent to the hypoxia at ∼4,300 m elevation for 6-8 wk) and was consistently greater in highlanders than in lowlanders. V̇o(2max) during exercise in normoxia was not affected by ancestry or acclimation. Highlanders also had consistently greater capillarity, oxidative fiber density, and maximal activities of oxidative enzymes (cytochrome c oxidase and citrate synthase) in the gastrocnemius muscle, lower lactate dehydrogenase activity in the gastrocnemius, and greater cytochrome c oxidase activity in the diaphragm. Hypoxia acclimation did not affect any of these muscle traits. The unique gastrocnemius phenotype of highlanders was associated with higher mRNA and protein abundances of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ (PPARγ). Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGFA) transcript abundance was lower in highlanders, and hypoxia acclimation reduced the expression of numerous genes that regulate angiogenesis and energy metabolism, in contrast to the observed population differences in muscle phenotype. Lowlanders exhibited greater increases in blood hemoglobin content, hematocrit, and wet lung mass (but not dry lung mass) than highlanders after hypoxia acclimation. Genotypic adaptation to high altitude, therefore, improves exercise performance in hypoxia by mechanisms that are at least partially distinct from those underlying hypoxia acclimation.
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- Mikaela A Lui
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; and
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada;
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Frisancho AR. Developmental functional adaptation to high altitude: review. Am J Hum Biol 2014; 25:151-68. [PMID: 24065360 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/26/2012] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Various approaches have been used to understand the origins of the functional traits that characterize the Andean high-altitude native. Based on the conceptual framework of developmental functional adaptation which postulates that environmental influences during the period of growth and development have long lasting effects that may be expressed during adulthood, we initiated a series of studies addressed at determining the pattern of physical growth and the contribution of growth and development to the attainment of full functional adaptation to high-altitude of low and high altitude natives living under rural and urban conditions. Current research indicate that: (a) the pattern of growth at high altitude due to limited nutritional resources, physical growth in body size is delayed but growth in lung volumes is accelerated because of hypoxic stress); (b) low-altitude male and female urban natives can attain a full functional adaptation to high altitude by exposure to high-altitude hypoxia during the period of growth and development; (c) both experimental studies on animals and comparative human studies indicate that exposure to high altitude during the period of growth and development results in the attainment of a large residual lung volume; (d) this developmentally acquired enlarged residual lung volume and its associated increase in alveolar area when combined with the increased tissue capillarization and moderate increase in red blood cells and hemoglobin concentration contributes to the successful functional adaptation of the Andean high-altitude native to hypoxia; and (e) any specific genetic traits that are related to the successful functional adaptation of Andean high-altitude natives have yet to be identified.
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- A Roberto Frisancho
- Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1092
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Frisancho AR. Developmental Functional Adaptation to High Altitude: Review. Am J Hum Biol 2013. [DOI: 10.1002/jhb.22367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- A. Roberto Frisancho
- Department of Anthropology and Center for Human Growth and Development; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor; Michigan; 48109-1092
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Regulatory changes contribute to the adaptive enhancement of thermogenic capacity in high-altitude deer mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:8635-40. [PMID: 22586089 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120523109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In response to hypoxic stress, many animals compensate for a reduced cellular O(2) supply by suppressing total metabolism, thereby reducing O(2) demand. For small endotherms that are native to high-altitude environments, this is not always a viable strategy, as the capacity for sustained aerobic thermogenesis is critical for survival during periods of prolonged cold stress. For example, survivorship studies of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) have demonstrated that thermogenic capacity is under strong directional selection at high altitude. Here, we integrate measures of whole-organism thermogenic performance with measures of metabolic enzyme activities and genomic transcriptional profiles to examine the mechanistic underpinnings of adaptive variation in this complex trait in deer mice that are native to different elevations. We demonstrate that highland deer mice have an enhanced thermogenic capacity under hypoxia compared with lowland conspecifics and a closely related lowland species, Peromyscus leucopus. Our findings suggest that the enhanced thermogenic performance of highland deer mice is largely attributable to an increased capacity to oxidize lipids as a primary metabolic fuel source. This enhanced capacity for aerobic thermogenesis is associated with elevated activities of muscle metabolic enzymes that influence flux through fatty-acid oxidation and oxidative phosphorylation pathways in high-altitude deer mice and by concomitant changes in the expression of genes in these same pathways. Contrary to predictions derived from studies of humans at high altitude, our results suggest that selection to sustain prolonged thermogenesis under hypoxia promotes a shift in metabolic fuel use in favor of lipids over carbohydrates.
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Janáček J, Cvetko E, Kubínová L, Travnik L, Eržen I. A novel method for evaluation of capillarity in human skeletal muscles from confocal 3D images. Microvasc Res 2011; 81:231-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2010.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2010] [Revised: 10/20/2010] [Accepted: 11/12/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Storz JF, Scott GR, Cheviron ZA. Phenotypic plasticity and genetic adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in vertebrates. J Exp Biol 2010; 213:4125-36. [PMID: 21112992 PMCID: PMC2992463 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.048181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/31/2010] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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High-altitude environments provide ideal testing grounds for investigations of mechanism and process in physiological adaptation. In vertebrates, much of our understanding of the acclimatization response to high-altitude hypoxia derives from studies of animal species that are native to lowland environments. Such studies can indicate whether phenotypic plasticity will generally facilitate or impede adaptation to high altitude. Here, we review general mechanisms of physiological acclimatization and genetic adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia in birds and mammals. We evaluate whether the acclimatization response to environmental hypoxia can be regarded generally as a mechanism of adaptive phenotypic plasticity, or whether it might sometimes represent a misdirected response that acts as a hindrance to genetic adaptation. In cases in which the acclimatization response to hypoxia is maladaptive, selection will favor an attenuation of the induced phenotypic change. This can result in a form of cryptic adaptive evolution in which phenotypic similarity between high- and low-altitude populations is attributable to directional selection on genetically based trait variation that offsets environmentally induced changes. The blunted erythropoietic and pulmonary vasoconstriction responses to hypoxia in Tibetan humans and numerous high-altitude birds and mammals provide possible examples of this phenomenon. When lowland animals colonize high-altitude environments, adaptive phenotypic plasticity can mitigate the costs of selection, thereby enhancing prospects for population establishment and persistence. By contrast, maladaptive plasticity has the opposite effect. Thus, insights into the acclimatization response of lowland animals to high-altitude hypoxia can provide a basis for predicting how altitudinal range limits might shift in response to climate change.
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- Jay F Storz
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA.
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Eliason G, Abdel-Halim SM, Piehl-Aulin K, Kadi F. Alterations in the muscle-to-capillary interface in patients with different degrees of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respir Res 2010; 11:97. [PMID: 20633289 PMCID: PMC2912824 DOI: 10.1186/1465-9921-11-97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2009] [Accepted: 07/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND It is hypothesized that decreased capillarization of limb skeletal muscle is implicated in the decreased exercise tolerance in COPD patients. We have recently demonstrated decreased number of capillaries per muscle fibre (CAF) but no changes in CAF in relation to fibre area (CAFA), which is based on the diffusion distance between the capillary and muscle fibre. The aim of the current study is to investigate the muscle-to-capillary interface which is an important factor involved in oxygen supply to the muscle that has previously been suggested to be a more sensitive marker for changes in the capillary bed compared to CAF and CAFA. METHODS 23 COPD patients and 12 age-matched healthy subjects participated in the study. Muscle-to-capillary interface was assessed in muscle biopsies from the tibialis anterior muscle using the following parameters:1) The capillary-to-fibre ratio (C:Fi) which is defined as the sum of the fractional contributions of all capillary contacts around the fibre2) The ratio between C:Fi and the fibre perimeter (CFPE-index)3) The ratio between length of capillary and fibre perimeter (LC/PF) which is also referred to as the index of tortuosity.Exercise capacity was determined using the 6-min walking test. RESULTS A positive correlation was found between CFPE-index and ascending disease severity with CFPE-index for type I fibres being significantly lower in patients with moderate and severe COPD. Furthermore, a positive correlation was observed between exercise capacity and CFPE-index for both type I and type IIa fibres. CONCLUSION It can be concluded that the muscle-to-capillary interface is disturbed in the tibialis anterior muscle in patients with COPD and that interface is strongly correlated to increased disease severity and to decreased exercise capacity in this patient group.
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Epo is relevant neither for microvascular formation nor for the new formation and maintenance of mice skeletal muscle fibres in both normoxia and hypoxia. J Biomed Biotechnol 2010; 2010:137817. [PMID: 20414335 PMCID: PMC2855079 DOI: 10.1155/2010/137817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2009] [Revised: 01/28/2010] [Accepted: 02/09/2010] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Erythropoietin (Epo) and vascular growth factor (VEGF) are known to be involved in the regulation of cellular activity when oxygen transport is reduced as in anaemia or hypoxic conditions. Because it has been suggested that Epo could play a role in skeletal muscle development, regeneration, and angiogenesis, we aimed to assess Epo deficiency in both normoxia and hypoxia by using an Epo-deficient transgenic mouse model (Epo-TAgh). Histoimmunology, ELISA and real time RT-PCR did not show any muscle fiber atrophy or accumulation of active HIF-1α but an improvement of microvessel network and an upregulation of VEGFR2 mRNA in Epo-deficient gastrocnemius compared with Wild-Type one. In hypoxia, both models exhibit an upregulation of VEGF120 and VEGFR2 mRNA but no accumulation of Epo protein. EpoR mRNA is not up-regulated in both Epo-deficient and hypoxic gastrocnemius. These results suggest that muscle deconditioning observed in patients suffering from renal failure is not due to Epo deficiency.
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Liu B, Wang Z, Lu J. Response to chronic intermittent hypoxia in blood system of Mandarin vole (Lasiopodomys mandarinus). Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2010; 156:469-74. [PMID: 20371298 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.03.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2010] [Revised: 03/27/2010] [Accepted: 03/28/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mandarin voles (Lasiopodomys mandarinus) spend almost all their lives underground and must have evolved remarkable physiological adaptations to subterranean hypoxic stress. To understand the response to hypoxia in blood system of this rodent in a region with lower altitude, we tested and compared the responding characteristics between Mandarin vole and Kunming mouse (Mus musculus) under chronic normobaric hypoxic treatment (10.0% O(2), 4 w). The results showed that: 1) as for responses to chronic hypoxia, HIF-1 alpha, EPO and VEGF exhibited similar patterns in two species. The expression of HIF-1 alpha and VEGF significantly increased while EPO decreased significantly, and HIF-1 alpha showed a greater increase at 10.0% oxygen level in Mandarin voles; 2) both rodents responded to chronic hypoxia mainly by increasing MCH, though KM mouse responded more acutely; 3) the change in MCHC in Mandarin vole was ignorable though it is significantly higher than that in KM mouse whose MCHC changed extensively and 4) both before and after hypoxic treatment, the capillary density in Mandarin vole was significantly higher than that in KM mouse, and it increased sharply in KM mouse after treatment. Our results indicated that, compared to KM mice, Mandarin voles did respond effectively to hypoxia stress after long-term adaptation to subterranean life environment.
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- Bin Liu
- Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology, Zhengzhou University, No 100 Kexue Dadao Road, Zhengzhou, Henan 450001, China
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Gamboa JL, Andrade FH. Mitochondrial content and distribution changes specific to mouse diaphragm after chronic normobaric hypoxia. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2009; 298:R575-83. [PMID: 20007520 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00320.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Chronic hypoxia reduces aerobic capacity (mitochondrial content) in limb skeletal muscles, and one of the causes seems to be decreased physical activity. Diaphragm and other respiratory muscles, however, may have a different pattern of adaptation as hypoxia increases the work of breathing. Thus, we hypothesized that chronic hypoxia would not reduce mitochondrial content in mouse diaphragm. Adult male C57BL/6J mice were kept in normoxia (Fi(O(2)) = 21%, control) or normobaric hypoxia (Fi(O(2)) = 10%, hypoxia) for 1, 2, and 4 wk. Mice were then killed, and the diaphragm and gastrocnemius muscles collected for analysis. In the diaphragm, cytochrome c oxidase histochemistry showed less intense staining in the hypoxia group. The total content of subunits from the electron transport chain, pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 1 (PDK1), and voltage-dependent anion channel 1 (VDAC1) was evaluated by Western blot. These proteins decreased by 25-30% after 4 wk of hypoxia (P < 0.05 vs. control for all comparisons), matching a comparable decrease in diaphragmatic mitochondrial volume density (control 33.6 +/- 5.5% vs. hypoxia 26.8 +/- 6.7%, P = 0.013). Mitochondrial volume density or protein content did not change in gastrocnemius after hypoxia. Hypoxia decreased the content of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) and PPARgamma cofactor 1-alpha (PGC-1alpha) in diaphragm but not in gastrocnemius. PGC-1alpha mRNA levels in diaphragm were also reduced with hypoxia. BCL2/adenovirus E1B interacting protein 3 (BNIP-3) mRNA levels were upregulated after 1 and 2 wk of hypoxia in diaphragm and gastrocnemius, respectively; BNIP-3 protein content increased only in the diaphragm after 4 wk of hypoxia. Contrary to our hypothesis, these results show that chronic hypoxia decreases mitochondrial content in mouse diaphragm, despite the increase in workload. A combination of reduced mitochondrial biogenesis and increased mitophagy seems to be responsible for the decrease in mitochondrial content in the mouse diaphragm after hypoxia.
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- Jorge L Gamboa
- Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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Cai MC, Huang QY, Liao WG, Wu Z, Liu FY, Gao YQ. Hypoxic training increases metabolic enzyme activity and composition of alpha-myosin heavy chain isoform in rat ventricular myocardium. Eur J Appl Physiol 2009; 108:105-11. [PMID: 19756706 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-009-1189-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/25/2009] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Cardiac muscle adaptation is essential for maintaining physical capacity after ascending to high altitude. This study examines the effects of high altitude training on myocardial metabolic enzyme activity and composition of alpha-myosin heavy chain (MHC). Rats were randomly divided into normobaric sedentary (NS) and training (NT) groups, and hypobaric sedentary (HS) and training (HT) groups. HS and HT rats were exposed to hypobaric hypoxia (simulated 4,000-5,000 m) for 5 weeks (24 h/day), and HT rats simultaneously received swim training. Hypoxia exposure for 5 weeks led to a decrease in succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and citrate synthase (CS) activities in the left ventricle (LV), and a decrease in CS, hexokinase (HK) and total lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activities in the right ventricle (RV) (p < 0.05, HS vs. NS). Furthermore, 1 h/day swim training during hypoxia exposure enhanced the CS activity in LV and the SDH and CS activities in RV (p < 0.05, HT vs. HS). The percentages of alpha-MHC in both ventricles in HT were higher than those in HS (p < 0.05). We conclude that exercise training at high altitude is beneficial for cardiac muscle adaptation to hypoxia by increasing activities of enzymes and percentage of alpha-MHC. This may contribute to improved cardiac function and work capacity at high altitude.
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- Ming-Chun Cai
- Department of Pathophysiology and High Altitude Physiology, Key Laboratory of High Altitude Medicine, Ministry of Educative, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Scott GR, Richards JG, Milsom WK. Control of respiration in flight muscle from the high-altitude bar-headed goose and low-altitude birds. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2009; 297:R1066-74. [PMID: 19657102 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00241.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bar-headed geese fly at altitudes of up to 9,000 m on their biannual migration over the Himalayas. To determine whether the flight muscle of this species has evolved to facilitate exercise at high altitude, we compared the respiratory properties of permeabilized muscle fibers from bar-headed geese and several low-altitude waterfowl species. Respiratory capacities were assessed for maximal ADP stimulation (with single or multiple inputs to the electron transport system) and cytochrome oxidase excess capacity (with an exogenous electron donor) and were generally 20-40% higher in bar-headed geese when creatine was present. When respiration rates were extrapolated to the entire pectoral muscle mass, bar-headed geese had a higher mass-specific aerobic capacity. This may represent a surplus capacity that counteracts the depressive effects of hypoxia on mitochondrial respiration. However, there were no differences in activity for mitochondrial or glycolytic enzymes measured in homogenized muscle. The [ADP] leading to half-maximal stimulation (K(m)) was approximately twofold higher in bar-headed geese (10 vs. 4-6 microM), and, while creatine reduced K(m) by 30% in this species, it had no effect on K(m) in low-altitude birds. Mitochondrial creatine kinase may therefore contribute to the regulation of oxidative phosphorylation in flight muscle of bar-headed geese, which could promote efficient coupling of ATP supply and demand. However, this was not based on differences in creatine kinase activity in isolated mitochondria or homogenized muscle. The unique differences in bar-headed geese existed without prior exercise or hypoxia exposure and were not a result of phylogenetic history, and may, therefore, be important evolutionary specializations for high-altitude flight.
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- Graham R Scott
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Scott GR, Egginton S, Richards JG, Milsom WK. Evolution of muscle phenotype for extreme high altitude flight in the bar-headed goose. Proc Biol Sci 2009; 276:3645-53. [PMID: 19640884 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Bar-headed geese migrate over the Himalayas at up to 9000 m elevation, but it is unclear how they sustain the high metabolic rates needed for flight in the severe hypoxia at these altitudes. To better understand the basis for this physiological feat, we compared the flight muscle phenotype of bar-headed geese with that of low altitude birds (barnacle geese, pink-footed geese, greylag geese and mallard ducks). Bar-headed goose muscle had a higher proportion of oxidative fibres. This increased muscle aerobic capacity, because the mitochondrial volume densities of each fibre type were similar between species. However, bar-headed geese had more capillaries per muscle fibre than expected from this increase in aerobic capacity, as well as higher capillary densities and more homogeneous capillary spacing. Their mitochondria were also redistributed towards the subsarcolemma (cell membrane) and adjacent to capillaries. These alterations should improve O(2) diffusion capacity from the blood and reduce intracellular O(2) diffusion distances, respectively. The unique differences in bar-headed geese were much greater than the minor variation between low altitude species and existed without prior exercise or hypoxia exposure, and the correlation of these traits to flight altitude was independent of phylogeny. In contrast, isolated mitochondria had similar respiratory capacities, O(2) kinetics and phosphorylation efficiencies across species. Bar-headed geese have therefore evolved for exercise in hypoxia by enhancing the O(2) supply to flight muscle.
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- Graham R Scott
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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Wüst RCI, Jaspers RT, van Heijst AF, Hopman MTE, Hoofd LJC, van der Laarse WJ, Degens H. Region-specific adaptations in determinants of rat skeletal muscle oxygenation to chronic hypoxia. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2009; 297:H364-74. [PMID: 19429822 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00272.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chronic exposure to hypoxia is associated with muscle atrophy (i.e., a reduction in muscle fiber cross-sectional area), reduced oxidative capacity, and capillary growth. It is controversial whether these changes are muscle and fiber type specific. We hypothesized that different regions of the same muscle would also respond differently to chronic hypoxia. To investigate this, we compared the deep (oxidative) and superficial (glycolytic) region of the plantaris muscle of eight male rats exposed to 4 wk of hypobaric hypoxia (410 mmHg, Po(2): 11.5 kPa) with those of nine normoxic rats. Hematocrit was higher in chronic hypoxic than control rats (59% vs. 50%, P < 0.001). Using histochemistry, we observed 10% fiber atrophy (P < 0.05) in both regions of the muscle but no shift in the fiber type composition and myoglobin concentration of the fibers. In hypoxic rats, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activity was elevated in fibers of each type in the superficial region (25%, P < 0.05) but not in the deep region, whereas in the deep region but not the superficial region the number of capillaries supplying a fiber was elevated (14%, P < 0.05). Model calculations showed that the region-specific alterations in fiber size, SDH activity, and capillary supply to a fiber prevented the occurrence of anoxic areas in the deep region but not in the superficial region. Inclusion of reported acclimatization-induced increases in mean capillary oxygen pressure attenuated the development of anoxic tissue areas in the superficial region of the muscle. We conclude that the determinants of tissue oxygenation show region-specific adaptations, resulting in a marked differential effect on tissue Po(2).
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- R C I Wüst
- Institute for Biomedical Research into Human Movement and Health, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
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CHEVIRON ZACHARYA, WHITEHEAD ANDREW, BRUMFIELD ROBBT. Transcriptomic variation and plasticity in rufous-collared sparrows (Zonotrichia capensis) along an altitudinal gradient. Mol Ecol 2008; 17:4556-69. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2008.03942.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Esteva S, Panisello P, Casas M, Torrella JR, Pagés T, Viscor G. Morphofunctional responses to anaemia in rat skeletal muscle. J Anat 2008; 212:836-44. [PMID: 18510510 PMCID: PMC2423404 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00908.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to two groups: control and anaemic. Anaemia was induced by periodical blood withdrawal. Extensor digitorum longus and soleus muscles were excised under pentobarbital sodium total anaesthesia and processed for transmission electron microscopy, histochemical and biochemical analyses. Mitochondrial volume was determined by transmission electron microscopy in three different regions of each muscle fibre: pericapillary, sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmatic. Muscle samples sections were also stained with histochemical methods (SDH and m-ATPase) to reveal the oxidative capacity and shortening velocity of each muscle fibre. Determinations of fibre and capillary densities and fibre type composition were made from micrographs of different fixed fields selected in the equatorial region of each rat muscle. Determination of metabolites (ATP, inorganic phosphate, creatine, creatine phosphate and lactate) was done using established enzymatic methods and spectrophotometric detection. Significant differences in mitochondrial volumes were found between pericapillary, sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic regions when data from animal groups were tested independently. Moreover, it was verified that anaemic rats had significantly lower values than control animals in all the sampled regions of both muscles. These changes were associated with a significantly higher proportion of fast fibres in anaemic rat soleus muscles (slow oxidative group = 63.8%; fast glycolytic group = 8.2%; fast oxidative glycolytic group = 27.4%) than in the controls (slow oxidative group = 79.0%; fast glycolytic group = 3.9%; fast oxidative glycolytic group = 17.1%). No significant changes were detected in the extensor digitorum longus muscle. A significant increase was found in metabolite concentration in both the extensor digitorum longus and soleus muscles of the anaemic animals as compared to the control group. In conclusion, hypoxaemic hypoxia causes a reduction in mitochondrial volumes of pericapillary, sarcolemmal, and sarcoplasmic regions. However, a common proportional pattern of the zonal distribution of mitochondria was maintained within the fibres. A significant increment was found in the concentration of some metabolites and in the proportion of fast fibres in the more oxidative soleus muscle in contrast to the predominantly anaerobic extensor digitorum longus.
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- Santiago Esteva
- Departament de Fisiologia - Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Favret F, Richalet JP. Exercise and hypoxia: The role of the autonomic nervous system. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2007; 158:280-6. [PMID: 17521971 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2007.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2007] [Revised: 03/14/2007] [Accepted: 04/05/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The reduction in maximal oxygen consumption in hypoxia can be due to physiological factors, the relative importance of which depends on the degree of hypoxia: the reduction in inspired PO2, the impairment of lung gas exchange contributing to an exercise-induced decrease in arterial O(2) saturation, the reduction in maximal cardiac output and the limitation in tissue diffusion. This paper focuses on two aspects of this oxygen cascade. First, the decrease in heart rate at maximal exercise in prolonged exposure to hypoxia is discussed and the role of changes in the autonomous nervous system is emphasised. The desensitization of the beta-adrenergic pathway and the upregulation of the muscarinic pathway, both using G-protein systems, contribute to limit the myocardial O(2) consumption in face of reduced O(2) availability during maximal exercise in hypoxia. The changes in O(2) diffusion to the tissues are discussed in relation to the expression of hypoxia inducible factor (HIF-1alpha) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and their possible changes induced by training and/or hypoxic exposure.
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- Fabrice Favret
- Université Paris 13, Laboratoire EA2363 Réponses Cellulaires et Fonctionnelles à l'hypoxie, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, Bobigny, France
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Larsson BW, Kadi F, Ulfberg J, Aulin KP. Skeletal Muscle Morphology in Patients with Restless Legs Syndrome. Eur Neurol 2007; 58:133-7. [PMID: 17622717 DOI: 10.1159/000104712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2006] [Accepted: 02/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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AIM The aim of the study was to assess the cellular and structural properties of skeletal muscle in restless legs syndrome (RLS). METHOD Twenty patients and 16 controls were included. Aerobic performance was assessed using a submaximal test. On muscle biopsies taken from the tibialis anterior, fiber distribution and fiber area were analyzed together with parameters surveying the microvascularization, especially the tortuosity, which is expressed as a percent of muscle fiber perimeter in contact with the wall of the microvessel, length of capillary/perimeter of fiber (LC/PF) index. RESULTS The RLS group had significantly lower predicted maximal oxygen uptake (p = 0.01) and significantly higher LC/PF index (p = 0.01) compared to the controls. CONCLUSION The higher capillary tortuosity in RLS patients indicates the occurrence of significant remodeling in capillary geometry in RLS.
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Däpp C, Gassmann M, Hoppeler H, Flück M. Hypoxia-induced gene activity in disused oxidative muscle. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2007; 588:171-88. [PMID: 17089889 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-34817-9_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Hypoxia is an important modulator of the skeletal muscle's oxidative phenotype. However, little is known regarding the molecular circuitry underlying the muscular hypoxia response and the interaction of hypoxia with other stimuli of muscle oxidative capacity. We hypothesized that exposure of mice to severe hypoxia would promote the expression of genes involved in capillary morphogenesis and glucose over fatty acid metabolism in active or disused soleus muscle of mice. Specifically, we tested whether the hypoxic response depends on oxygen sensing via the alpha-subunit of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1 alpha). Spontaneously active wildtype and HIF-1 alpha heterozygous deficient adult female C57B1/6 mice were subjected to hypoxia (PiO2 70 mmHg). In addition, animals were subjected to hypoxia after 7 days of muscle disuse provoked by hindlimb suspension. Soleus muscles were rapidly isolated and analyzed for transcript level alterations with custom-designed AtlasTM cDNA expression arrays (BD Biosciences) and cluster analysis of differentially expressed mRNAs. Multiple mRNA elevations of factors involved in dissolution and stabilization of blood vessels, glycolysis, and mitochondrial respiration were evident after 24 hours of hypoxia in soleus muscle. In parallel transcripts of fat metabolism were reduced. A comparable hypoxia-induced expression pattern involving complex alterations of the IGF-I axis was observed in reloaded muscle after disuse. This hypoxia response in spontaneously active animals was blunted in the HIF-1 alpha heterozygous deficient mice demonstrating 35% lower HIF-1 alpha mRNA levels. Our molecular observations support the concept that severe hypoxia provides HIF-1-dependent signals for remodeling of existing blood vessels, a shift towards glycolytic metabolism and altered myogenic regulation in oxidative mouse muscle and which is amplified by enhanced muscle use. These findings further imply differential mitochondrial turnover and a negative role of HIF-1 alpha for control of fatty acid oxidation in skeletal muscle exposed to one day of severe hypoxia.
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Métabolisme des nutriments au cours de l'insuffisance respiratoire chronique. NUTR CLIN METAB 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nupar.2006.10.179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Roels B, Hellard P, Schmitt L, Robach P, Richalet JP, Millet GP. Is it more effective for highly trained swimmers to live and train at 1200 m than at 1850 m in terms of performance and haematological benefits? Br J Sports Med 2006; 40:e4. [PMID: 16431991 PMCID: PMC2492034 DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2004.017103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The effects of living and training have not been compared at different altitudes in well trained subjects. METHODS Nine international swimmers lived and trained for 13 days similarly at 1200 m (T1200) and 1850 m (T1850). The two altitude training periods were separated by six weeks of sea level training. Before and after each training trip, subjects performed, at an altitude of 1200 m, an incremental exercise test to exhaustion of 5 x 200 m swims and a maximal test over 2000 m. RESULTS There was no difference in Vo(2)max after each training trip: the before values were 58.5 (5.6) and 60.4 (6.7) ml/kg/min and the after values were 56.2 (5.2) and 57.1 (4.7) ml/kg/min for T1200 and T1850 respectively. The 2000 m performance had improved during T1200 (1476 (34) to 1448 (45) seconds) but not during T1850 (1458 (35) v 1450 (33) seconds). Mean cell volume increased during T1850 (86.6 (2.8) to 88.7 (2.9) microm(3)) but did not change during T1200 (85.6 (2.9) v 85.7 (2.9) microm(3)). The proportion of reticulocytes decreased during T1200 (15.2 (3.8)% to 10.3 (3.4)%) and increased during T1850 (9.3 (1.6)% to 11.9 (3.5)%). CONCLUSIONS The short term effects of 13 days of training at 1200 m on swimming performance appear to be greater than the same type of training for the same length of time at 1850 m. As mean cell volume and proportion of reticulocytes only increased during training at 1850 m, the benefits of training at this altitude may be delayed and appear later on.
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- B Roels
- UPRES EA 3759 Multidisciplinary Approach of Doping, 700 avenue Pic St Loup, 34090 Montpellier, France.
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Scott GR, Milsom WK. Flying high: a theoretical analysis of the factors limiting exercise performance in birds at altitude. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2006; 154:284-301. [PMID: 16563881 DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2006.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2005] [Revised: 01/13/2006] [Accepted: 02/10/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The ability of some bird species to fly at extreme altitude has fascinated comparative respiratory physiologists for decades, yet there is still no consensus about what adaptations enable high altitude flight. Using a theoretical model of O(2) transport, we performed a sensitivity analysis of the factors that might limit exercise performance in birds. We found that the influence of individual physiological traits on oxygen consumption (Vo2) during exercise differed between sea level, moderate altitude, and extreme altitude. At extreme altitude, haemoglobin (Hb) O(2) affinity, total ventilation, and tissue diffusion capacity for O(2) (D(To2)) had the greatest influences on Vo2; increasing these variables should therefore have the greatest adaptive benefit for high altitude flight. There was a beneficial interaction between D(To2) and the P(50) of Hb, such that increasing D(To2) had a greater influence on Vo2 when P(50) was low. Increases in the temperature effect on P(50) could also be beneficial for high flying birds, provided that cold inspired air at extreme altitude causes a substantial difference in temperature between blood in the lungs and in the tissues. Changes in lung diffusion capacity for O(2), cardiac output, blood Hb concentration, the Bohr coefficient, or the Hill coefficient likely have less adaptive significance at high altitude. Our sensitivity analysis provides theoretical suggestions of the adaptations most likely to promote high altitude flight in birds and provides direction for future in vivo studies.
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- Graham R Scott
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Mathieu-Costello O, Ju Y, Trejo-Morales M, Cui L. Greater capillary-fiber interface per fiber mitochondrial volume in skeletal muscles of old rats. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2005; 99:281-9. [PMID: 15774695 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00750.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The objective was to examine whether muscle structural capacity for O2 flux (i.e., capillary-to-fiber surface ratio) relative to fiber mitochondrial volume deteriorates with the muscle atrophy of aging in predominantly slow- (soleus, S) and fast-twitch (extensor digitorum longus, EDL) muscles of old (24 mo) and very old (35 mo) F344BN rats compared with adult (12 mo old). Wet muscle mass decreased 29% (196 +/- 4 to 139 +/- 5 mg) in S and 22% (192 +/- 3 to 150 +/- 3 mg) in EDL between 12 and 35 mo of age, without decline in body mass. Capillary density increased 65% (1,387 +/- 54 to 2,291 +/- 238 mm(-2)) in S and 130% (964 +/- 95 to 2,216 +/- 311 mm(-2)) in EDL, because of the muscle fiber atrophy, whereas capillary per fiber number remained unchanged. Altered capillary geometry, i.e., lesser contribution of tortuosity and branching to capillary length, was found in S at 35 compared with 12 and 24 mo, and not in EDL. Accounting for capillary geometry revealed 55% (1,776 +/- 78 to 2,750 +/- 271 mm(-2)) and 113% (1,194 +/- 112 to 2,540 +/- 343 mm(-2)) increases in capillary length-to-fiber volume ratio between 12 and 35 mo of age in S and EDL, respectively. Fiber mitochondrial volume density was unchanged over the same period, causing mitochondrial volume per micrometer fiber length to decrease in proportion to the fiber atrophy in both muscles. As a result of the smaller fiber mitochondrial volume in the face of the unchanged capillary-to-fiber number ratio, capillary-to-fiber surface ratio relative to fiber mitochondrial volume not only did not deteriorate, but in fact increased twofold in both muscles between 12 and 35 mo of age, independent of their different fiber type.
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Affiliation(s)
- O Mathieu-Costello
- Dept. of Medicine, 0623A, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0623, USA
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Mathieu-Costello O, Hepple RT. Muscle structural capacity for oxygen flux from capillary to fiber mitochondria. Exerc Sport Sci Rev 2002; 30:80-4. [PMID: 11991542 DOI: 10.1097/00003677-200204000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The concept of major functional resistance to O2 flux at the capillary-fiber interface implies that muscle structural capacity for O2 flux from capillary to fiber mitochondria needs to be assessed in terms of capillary surface per fiber surface. Morphological data support this notion and show the importance of assessing the size of the capillary-fiber interface relative to muscle fiber O2 demand.
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