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Redman JS, Kaspar M, Puri P. Implications of pre-transplant sarcopenia and frailty in patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and alcoholic liver disease. Transl Gastroenterol Hepatol 2022; 7:29. [PMID: 35892054 PMCID: PMC9257536 DOI: 10.21037/tgh-20-236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Frailty manifesting as sarcopenia is an independent risk factor for mortality in cirrhosis, and often presents in low model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) patients. Its etiology is multifactorial, but key physiologic changes culminate in altered energy utilization in the fasting state, preferentially utilizing muscle amino acids for gluconeogenesis thereby promoting sarcopenia. Hyperammonemia alters the circulating amino acid profile, diminishing pro-muscle branched-chain amino acids like leucine. The metabolic syndrome worsens sarcopenia through multi-tissue insulin resistance. Alcohol also exacerbates sarcopenia as a direct muscle toxin and inhibitor of growth signaling. Therapy is aimed at alcohol cessation, frequent high-protein meals, branched-chain amino acid supplementation, and diminished time spent fasting. Moderate exercise can improve muscle mass and muscle quality, though precise exercise regimens have not yet been explicitly determined. Studies are ongoing into the effects of myostatin antagonists and insulin sensitizers. The Liver Frailty Index can predict patients most at risk of poor outcome and should be considered in the management of all cirrhotic patients. Specialty testing like dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scanning and cross-sectional estimates of muscle mass are areas of active research and may play a future role in clinical risk-stratification.
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- Joseph S. Redman
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, West Hospital, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, West Hospital, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, West Hospital, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA
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Levitt DE, Chalapati N, Prendergast MJ, Simon L, Molina PE. Ethanol-Impaired Myogenic Differentiation is Associated With Decreased Myoblast Glycolytic Function. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2020; 44:2166-2176. [PMID: 32945016 PMCID: PMC7680427 DOI: 10.1111/acer.14453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Revised: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Myopathy affects nearly half of individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD), and impaired skeletal muscle regenerative potential is a probable contributing factor. Previous findings from our laboratory indicate that chronic in vivo and in vitro ethanol (EtOH) treatment decreases myogenic potential of skeletal muscle myoblasts. Myogenesis, a highly coordinated process, requires shifts in cellular metabolic state allowing for myoblasts to proliferate and differentiate into mature myotubes. The objective of this study was to determine whether alcohol interferes with myoblast mitochondrial and glycolytic metabolism and impairs myogenic differentiation. METHODS Myoblasts were isolated from vastus lateralis muscle excised from alcohol-naïve adult male (n = 5) and female (n = 5) rhesus macaques. Myoblasts were proliferated for 3 days (day 0 differentiation; D0) and differentiated for 5 days (D5) with or without 50 mM EtOH. Metabolism was assessed using a mitochondrial stress test to measure oxygen consumption (OCR) and extracellular acidification (ECAR) rates at D0. Differentiation was examined at D5. Expression of mitochondrial and glycolytic genes and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was measured at D0 and D5. RESULTS Ethanol significantly (p < 0.05) increased myoblast maximal OCR and decreased ECAR at D0, and decreased fusion index, myotubes per field, and total nuclei at D5. The EtOH-induced decrease in ECAR was associated with the EtOH-mediated decreases in fusion index and myotubes per field. EtOH did not alter the decrease in glycolytic gene expression and increase in mtDNA from D0 to D5. CONCLUSION During myoblast proliferation, EtOH decreased glycolytic metabolism and increased maximal OCR, suggesting that myoblast metabolic phenotype was dysregulated with EtOH. The EtOH-induced decrease in ECAR was associated with decreased differentiation. These findings suggest that EtOH-mediated shifts in metabolic phenotype may underlie impaired differentiation, which has important clinical implications for myogenesis in those affected by alcoholic myopathy.
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- Danielle E. Levitt
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
- Comprehensive Alcohol-HIV/AIDS Research Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
- Comprehensive Alcohol-HIV/AIDS Research Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
- Comprehensive Alcohol-HIV/AIDS Research Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
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Oh KH, Sheoran S, Richmond JE, Kim H. Alcohol induces mitochondrial fragmentation and stress responses to maintain normal muscle function in Caenorhabditis elegans. FASEB J 2020; 34:8204-8216. [PMID: 32294300 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201903166r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Revised: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Chronic excessive ethanol consumption has distinct toxic and adverse effects on a variety of tissues. In skeletal muscle, ethanol causes alcoholic myopathy, which is characterized by myofiber atrophy and the loss of muscle strength. Alcoholic myopathy is more prevalent than all inherited muscle diseases combined. Current evidence indicates that ethanol directly impairs muscle organization and function. However, the underlying mechanism by which ethanol causes toxicity in muscle is poorly understood. Here, we show that the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans exhibits the key features of alcoholic myopathy when exposed to ethanol. As in mammals, ethanol exposure impairs muscle strength and induces the expression of protective genes, including oxidative stress response genes. In addition, ethanol exposure causes the fragmentation of mitochondrial networks aligned with myofibril lattices. This ethanol-induced mitochondrial fragmentation is dependent on the mitochondrial fission factor DRP-1 (dynamin-related protein 1) and its receptor proteins on the outer mitochondrial membrane. Our data indicate that this fragmentation contributes to the activation of the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPR). We also found that robust, perpetual mitochondrial UPR activation effectively reduces muscle weakness caused by ethanol exposure. Our results strongly suggest that the modulation of mitochondrial stress responses may provide a method to ameliorate alcohol toxicity and damage to muscle.
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- Kelly H Oh
- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Center for Cancer Cell Biology, Immunology, and Infection, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA.,School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy, Center for Cancer Cell Biology, Immunology, and Infection, Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA.,School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA
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Duplanty AA, Siggins RW, Allerton T, Simon L, Molina PE. Myoblast mitochondrial respiration is decreased in chronic binge alcohol administered simian immunodeficiency virus-infected antiretroviral-treated rhesus macaques. Physiol Rep 2018; 6:e13625. [PMID: 29504290 PMCID: PMC5835494 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.13625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Revised: 01/30/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Work from our group demonstrated that chronic binge alcohol (CBA)-induces mitochondrial gene dysregulation at end-stage disease of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection in antiretroviral therapy (ART) naïve rhesus macaques. Alterations in gene expression can disrupt mitochondrial homeostasis and in turn contribute to the risk of metabolic comorbidities characterized by loss of skeletal muscle (SKM) functional mass that are associated with CBA, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and prolonged ART. The aim of this study was to examine the interaction of CBA and ART on SKM fiber oxidative capacity and myoblast mitochondrial respiration in asymptomatic SIV-infected macaques. SKM biopsies were obtained and myoblasts isolated at baseline and 11 months post-SIV infection from CBA/SIV/ART+ and from sucrose (SUC)-treated SIV-infected (SUC/SIV/ART+) macaques. CBA and ART decreased succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) activity in type 1 and type 2b fibers as determined by immunohistochemistry. Myoblasts isolated from CBA/SIV/ART+ macaques showed decreased maximal oxygen consumption rate (OCR) compared to myoblasts from control macaques. Maximal OCR was significantly increased in control myoblasts following incubation with formoterol, a beta adrenergic agonist, and this was associated with increased PGC-1α expression and mtDNA quantity. Additionally, formoterol treatment of myoblasts isolated from CBA/SIV/ART+ macaques partially restored maximal OCR to levels not significantly different from control. These results show that CBA in combination with ART impairs myoblast mitochondrial homeostasis in SIV-infected macaques. Moreover, our findings suggest that adrenergic agonists can potentially ameliorate mitochondrial dysfunction. Future studies will elucidate whether physical exercise in HIV patients with alcohol use disorder can improve mitochondrial health.
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- Anthony A. Duplanty
- Department of PhysiologyComprehensive Alcohol Research Center, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of ExcellenceLouisiana State University Health Sciences CenterNew OrleansLouisiana
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- Department of PhysiologyComprehensive Alcohol Research Center, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of ExcellenceLouisiana State University Health Sciences CenterNew OrleansLouisiana
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- Department of PhysiologyComprehensive Alcohol Research Center, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of ExcellenceLouisiana State University Health Sciences CenterNew OrleansLouisiana
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- Department of PhysiologyComprehensive Alcohol Research Center, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of ExcellenceLouisiana State University Health Sciences CenterNew OrleansLouisiana
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- Department of PhysiologyComprehensive Alcohol Research Center, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of ExcellenceLouisiana State University Health Sciences CenterNew OrleansLouisiana
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Dasarathy J, McCullough AJ, Dasarathy S. Sarcopenia in Alcoholic Liver Disease: Clinical and Molecular Advances. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2017; 41:1419-1431. [PMID: 28557005 DOI: 10.1111/acer.13425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2017] [Accepted: 05/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Despite advances in treatment of alcohol use disorders that focus on increasing abstinence and reducing recidivism, alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is projected to be the major cause of cirrhosis and its complications. Malnutrition is recognized as the most frequent complication in ALD, and despite the high clinical significance, there are no effective therapies to reverse malnutrition in ALD. Malnutrition is a relatively imprecise term, and sarcopenia or skeletal muscle loss, the major component of malnutrition, is primarily responsible for the adverse clinical consequences in patients with liver disease. It is, therefore, critical to define the specific abnormality (sarcopenia) rather than malnutrition in ALD, so that therapies targeting sarcopenia can be developed. Skeletal muscle mass is maintained by a balance between protein synthesis and proteolysis. Both direct effects of ethanol (EtOH) and its metabolites on the skeletal muscle and the consequences of liver disease result in disturbed proteostasis (protein homeostasis) and consequent sarcopenia. Once cirrhosis develops in patients with ALD, abstinence is unlikely to be effective in completely reversing sarcopenia, as other contributors including hyperammonemia, hormonal, and cytokine abnormalities aggravate sarcopenia and maintain a state of anabolic resistance initiated by EtOH. Cirrhosis is also a state of accelerated starvation, with increased gluconeogenesis that requires amino acid diversion from signaling and substrate functions. Novel therapeutic options are being recognized that are likely to supplant the current "deficiency replacement" approach and instead focus on specific molecular perturbations, given the increasing availability of small molecules that can target specific signaling components. Myostatin antagonists, leucine supplementation, and mitochondrial protective agents are currently in various stages of evaluation in preclinical studies to prevent and reverse sarcopenia, in cirrhosis in general, and ALD, specifically. Translation of these data to human studies and clinical application requires priority for allocation of resources.
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- Department of Gastreoenterology, Hepatology and Pathobiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Gastreoenterology, Hepatology and Pathobiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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