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Yang P, Fan Q, Cai H, Tian R, Su M. The effect of hypothyroidism on referential background metabolic activity on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2021; 11:3666-3676. [PMID: 34341740 DOI: 10.21037/qims-20-1310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Background Background uptake activity is used as a reference to assess treatment response by positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) with 2-deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro- D-glucose (18F-FDG). Prior studies have reported decreased liver and increased muscle 18F-FDG uptake in patients with hyperthyroidism. We hypothesized that hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism might have inverse effects on 18F-FDG uptake on PET/CT. Methods We recruited 36 patients with hypothyroidism and 36 age and gender-matched euthyroid participants. We recorded patient factors and background mean standardized uptake values normalized by lean body mass from the aortic blood pool, liver, and muscle. We compared the patient factors and background standardized uptake values normalized by lean body mass between hypothyroidism patients and the controls. We performed a multivariate analysis to determine the best predictors of the 3 different background standardized uptake values normalized by lean body mass. Results Patients with hypothyroidism had higher liver standardized uptake values normalized by lean body mass (1.77±0.33 vs. 1.58±0.26, P=0.009) and aortic blood-pool standardized uptake values normalized by lean body mass (1.21±0.22 vs. 1.11±0.20, P=0.040) than the controls. In contrast, the muscle standardized uptake value normalized by lean body mass (0.50±0.09 vs. 0.54±0.09, P=0.044) of the patients with hypothyroidism was lower than that of the controls. The serum level of thyroid-stimulating hormone was an independent predictor of liver standardized uptake values normalized by lean body mass (β=0.356, P<0.001) and blood-pool standardized uptake values normalized by lean body mass (β=0.288, P=0.001). The serum level of free triiodothyronine was an independent predictor of muscle standardized uptake values normalized by lean body mass (β=0.310, P=0.002). Conclusions PET/CT scans showed that hypothyroidism patients had increased liver and blood-pool 18F-FDG uptake and decreased skeletal muscle 18F-FDG uptake compared with euthyroid individuals. These alterations should be noted when a metabolic response to cancer treatment on PET/CT is determined.
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- Pei Yang
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Hill C, Brunello E, Fusi L, Ovejero JG, Irving M. Myosin-based regulation of twitch and tetanic contractions in mammalian skeletal muscle. eLife 2021; 10:e68211. [PMID: 34121660 PMCID: PMC8275128 DOI: 10.7554/elife.68211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Time-resolved X-ray diffraction of isolated fast-twitch muscles of mice was used to show how structural changes in the myosin-containing thick filaments contribute to the regulation of muscle contraction, extending the previous focus on regulation by the actin-containing thin filaments. This study shows that muscle activation involves the following sequence of structural changes: thin filament activation, disruption of the helical array of myosin motors characteristic of resting muscle, release of myosin motor domains from the folded conformation on the filament backbone, and actin attachment. Physiological force generation in the 'twitch' response of skeletal muscle to single action potential stimulation is limited by incomplete activation of the thick filament and the rapid inactivation of both filaments. Muscle relaxation after repetitive stimulation is accompanied by a complete recovery of the folded motor conformation on the filament backbone but by incomplete reformation of the helical array, revealing a structural basis for post-tetanic potentiation in isolated muscles.
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- Cameron Hill
- Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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Barclay CJ, Loiselle DS. Historical Perspective: Heat production and chemical change in muscle. Roger C. Woledge. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2021; 161:3-16. [PMID: 33535062 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2021.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The objective of this article is to provide an historical perspective on a review of "Heat production and chemical change in muscle" written by Roger C. Woledge and published in Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 50 years ago. We first provide a brief but broad summary of the history of muscle chemistry prior to 1971 and then address the central theme of the 1971 review - that of energy balance. Energy balance is a method to establish whether all the energetically significant biochemical reactions accompanying muscle contraction have been identified. Woledge adopted the method to compare the measured enthalpy output (i.e., the sum of the heat output and work output) to that expected from the extent of known biochemical reactions. Prior work had suggested that the observed and expected enthalpy outputs were similar but Woledge proposed that the expected heat had been overestimated and that, hence, there must be an unidentified reaction that accounted for as much as half the heat produced by a contracting muscle. We describe investigations carried out after the review that vindicated that view, ultimately characterising the processes producing the unexplained enthalpy which, in turn, led to identification of the hitherto unknown reaction. Those experiments and a more recent resurrection of the approach using fluorescent probes to monitor ATP turnover have now accounted for the processes that underlie the complex time courses of muscle heat production and ATP turnover during contraction, at least in the classical frog sartorius muscle preparation. However, the few studies performed on mammalian muscles since then have produced results that are difficult to reconcile with the ideas derived from energy balance studies of amphibian and fish muscles, thereby suggesting a new objective for energy balance studies.
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- C J Barclay
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Auckland Bioengineering Institute and Department of Physiology, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Martins Peçanha FL, Dos Santos RS, da-Silva WS. Thyroid states regulate subcellular glucose phosphorylation activity in male mice. Endocr Connect 2017; 6:311-322. [PMID: 28483784 PMCID: PMC5510448 DOI: 10.1530/ec-17-0059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The thyroid hormones (THs), triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4), are very important in organism metabolism and regulate glucose utilization. Hexokinase (HK) is responsible for the first step of glycolysis, catalyzing the conversion of glucose to glucose 6-phosphate. HK has been found in different cellular compartments, and new functions have been attributed to this enzyme. The effects of hyperthyroidism on subcellular glucose phosphorylation in mouse tissues were examined. Tissues were removed, subcellular fractions were isolated from eu- and hyperthyroid (T3, 0.25 µg/g, i.p. during 21 days) mice and HK activity was assayed. Glucose phosphorylation was increased in the particulate fraction in soleus (312.4% ± 67.1, n = 10), gastrocnemius (369.2% ± 112.4, n = 10) and heart (142.2% ± 13.6, n = 10) muscle in the hyperthyroid group compared to the control group. Hexokinase activity was not affected in brain or liver. No relevant changes were observed in HK activity in the soluble fraction for all tissues investigated. Acute T3 administration (single dose of T3, 1.25 µg/g, i.p.) did not modulate HK activity. Interestingly, HK mRNA levels remained unchanged and HK bound to mitochondria was increased by T3 treatment, suggesting a posttranscriptional mechanism. Analysis of the AKT pathway showed a 2.5-fold increase in AKT and GSK3B phosphorylation in the gastrocnemius muscle in the hyperthyroid group compared to the euthyroid group. Taken together, we show for the first time that THs modulate HK activity specifically in particulate fractions and that this action seems to be under the control of the AKT and GSK3B pathways.
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- Flavia Letícia Martins Peçanha
- Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Leopoldo de MeisLaboratório de Adaptações Metabólicas, Programa de Bioquímica e Biofísica Celular, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Leopoldo de MeisLaboratório de Adaptações Metabólicas, Programa de Bioquímica e Biofísica Celular, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto de Bioquímica Médica Leopoldo de MeisLaboratório de Adaptações Metabólicas, Programa de Bioquímica e Biofísica Celular, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Solmonson A, Mills EM. Uncoupling Proteins and the Molecular Mechanisms of Thyroid Thermogenesis. Endocrinology 2016; 157:455-62. [PMID: 26636187 PMCID: PMC4733119 DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-1803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- A Solmonson
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (A.S., E.M.M.), College of Natural Sciences and Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology (E.M.M.), College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (A.S., E.M.M.), College of Natural Sciences and Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology (E.M.M.), College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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Muscles convert energy from ATP into useful work, which can be used to move limbs and to transport ions across membranes. The energy not converted into work appears as heat. At the start of contraction heat is also produced when Ca(2+) binds to troponin-C and to parvalbumin. Muscles use ATP throughout an isometric contraction at a rate that depends on duration of stimulation, muscle type, temperature and muscle length. Between 30% and 40% of the ATP used during isometric contraction fuels the pumping Ca(2+) and Na(+) out of the myoplasm. When shortening, muscles produce less force than in an isometric contraction but use ATP at a higher rate and when lengthening force output is higher than the isometric force but rate of ATP splitting is lower. Efficiency quantifies the fraction of the energy provided by ATP that is converted into external work. Each ATP molecule provides 100 zJ of energy that can potentially be converted into work. The mechanics of the myosin cross-bridge are such that at most 50 zJ of work can be done in one ATP consuming cycle; that is, the maximum efficiency of a cross-bridge is ∼50%. Cross-bridges in tortoise muscle approach this limit, producing over 90% of the possible work per cycle. Other muscles are less efficient but contract more rapidly and produce more power.
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- C J Barclay
- School of Allied Health Sciences/Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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Barclay CJ. A mathematical model of heat flow in a thermopile for measuring muscle heat production: implications for design and signal analysis. Physiol Meas 2015; 36:1853-72. [DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/36/9/1853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Barclay CJ. Quantifying Ca2+ release and inactivation of Ca2+ release in fast- and slow-twitch muscles. J Physiol 2012; 590:6199-212. [PMID: 23027818 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.242073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The aims of this study were to quantify the Ca(2+) release underlying twitch contractions of mammalian fast- and slow-twitch muscle and to comprehensively describe the transient inactivation of Ca(2+) release following a stimulus. Experiments were performed using bundles of fibres from mouse extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and soleus muscles. Ca(2+) release was quantified from the amount of ATP used to remove Ca(2+) from the myoplasm following stimulation. ATP turnover by crossbridges was blocked pharmacologically (N-benzyl-p-toluenesulphonamide for EDL, blebbistatin for soleus) and muscle heat production was used as an index of Ca(2+) pump ATP turnover. At 20°C, Ca(2+) release in response to a single stimulus was 34 and 84 μmol (kg muscle)(-1) for soleus and EDL, respectively, and increased with temperature (30°C: soleus, 61 μmol kg(-1); EDL, 168 μmol kg(-1)). Delivery of another stimulus within 100 ms of the first produced a smaller Ca(2+) release. The maximum magnitude of the decrease in Ca(2+) release was greater in EDL than soleus. Ca(2+) release recovered with an exponential time course which was faster in EDL (mean time constant at 20°C, 32.1 ms) than soleus (65.6 ms) and faster at 30°C than at 20°C. The amounts of Ca(2+) released and crossbridge cycles performed are consistent with a scheme in which Ca(2+) binding to troponin-C allowed an average of ∼1.7 crossbridge cycles in the two muscles.
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- C J Barclay
- Heart Foundation Research Centre, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Queensland 4222, Australia.
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Fredsted A, Gissel H, Madsen K, Clausen T. Causes of excitation-induced muscle cell damage in isometric contractions: mechanical stress or calcium overload? Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2007; 292:R2249-58. [PMID: 17332163 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00415.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Prolonged or unaccustomed exercise leads to muscle cell membrane damage, detectable as release of the intracellular enzyme lactic acid dehydrogenase (LDH). This is correlated to excitation-induced influx of Ca2+, but it cannot be excluded that mechanical stress contributes to the damage. We here explore this question using N-benzyl-p-toluene sulfonamide (BTS), which specifically blocks muscle contraction. Extensor digitorum longus muscles were prepared from 4-wk-old rats and mounted on holders for isometric contractions. Muscles were stimulated intermittently at 40 Hz for 15-60 min or exposed to the Ca2+ ionophore A23187. Electrical stimulation increased 45Ca influx 3-5 fold. This was followed by a progressive release of LDH, which was correlated to the influx of Ca2+. BTS (50 microM) caused a 90% inhibition of contractile force but had no effect on the excitation-induced 45Ca influx. After stimulation, ATP and creatine phosphate levels were higher in BTS-treated muscles, most likely due to the cessation of ATP-utilization for cross-bridge cycling, indicating a better energy status of these muscles. No release of LDH was observed in BTS-treated muscles. However, when exposed to anoxia, electrical stimulation caused a marked increase in LDH release that was not suppressed by BTS but associated with a decrease in the content of ATP. Dynamic passive stretching caused no increase in muscle Ca2+ content and only a minor release of LDH, whereas treatment with A23187 markedly increased LDH release both in control and BTS-treated muscles. In conclusion, after isometric contractions, muscle cell membrane damage depends on Ca2+ influx and energy status and not on mechanical stress.
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- Anne Fredsted
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
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Increased heat generation from biological processes is inherent to homeothermy. Homeothermic species produce more heat from sustaining a more active metabolism as well as from reducing fuel efficiency. This article reviews the mechanisms used by homeothermic species to generate more heat and their regulation largely by thyroid hormone (TH) and the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). Thermogenic mechanisms antecede homeothermy, but in homeothermic species they are activated and regulated. Some of these mechanisms increase ATP utilization (same amount of heat per ATP), whereas others increase the heat resulting from aerobic ATP synthesis (more heat per ATP). Among the former, ATP utilization in the maintenance of ionic gradient through membranes seems quantitatively more important, particularly in birds. Regulated reduction of the proton-motive force to produce heat, originally believed specific to brown adipose tissue, is indeed an ancient thermogenic mechanism. A regulated proton leak has been described in the mitochondria of several tissues, but its precise mechanism remains undefined. This leak is more active in homeothermic species and is regulated by TH, explaining a significant fraction of its thermogenic effect. Homeothermic species generate additional heat, in a facultative manner, when obligatory thermogenesis and heat-saving mechanisms become limiting. Facultative thermogenesis is activated by the SNS but is modulated by TH. The type II iodothyronine deiodinase plays a critical role in modulating the amount of the active TH, T(3), in BAT, thereby modulating the responses to SNS. Other hormones affect thermogenesis in an indirect or permissive manner, providing fuel and modulating thermogenesis depending on food availability, but they do not seem to have a primary role in temperature homeostasis. Thermogenesis has a very high energy cost. Cold adaptation and food availability may have been conflicting selection pressures accounting for the variability of thermogenesis in humans.
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- J Enrique Silva
- Baystate Medical Education and Research Foundation, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Baystate Medical Center, Tufts University Medical School, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
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Levine JA, Nygren J, Short KR, Nair KS. Effect of hyperthyroidism on spontaneous physical activity and energy expenditure in rats. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2003; 94:165-70. [PMID: 12486020 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00499.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Thyroid hormone excess is associated with increased energy expenditure. The contributions of increases in spontaneous physical activity and nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) to this effect have not been defined. To address the hypothesis that hyperthyroidism is associated with increased spontaneous physical activity and NEAT, we rendered rats hyperthyroid by using continuous infusion of high-dose triiodothyronine for 14 days and measured the effects on physical activity and NEAT. On day 14, in the hyperthyroid group the mean +/- SD triiodothyronine concentration was 755 +/- 137 (range 574-919) ng/dl and in the control group 59 +/- 0.5 (58-59) ng/dl. Over the 14-day treatment period, mean spontaneous physical activity increased in the hyperthyroid rats from 24 +/- 7 to 36 +/- 6 activity units (AU)/min; P < 0.001 but did not increase in the controls (23 +/- 7 vs. 22 +/- 4 AU/min). Also, over the 14-day period, daily NEAT increased in the hyperthyroid rats from 8.1 +/- 2.8 to 19.7 +/- 5.0 kcal/day (P < 0.001) but did not increase in the controls (8.7 +/- 3.5 cf 9.4 +/- 1.7 kcal/day; not significant). In conclusion, hyperthyroidism is associated with increased spontaneous physical activity and NEAT.
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- James A Levine
- Endocrine Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
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Curtin NA, Clapham JC, Barclay CJ. Excess recovery heat production by isolated muscles from mice overexpressing uncoupling protein-3. J Physiol 2002; 542:231-5. [PMID: 12096064 PMCID: PMC2290402 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.021964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Contractile and energetic performance of bundles of muscle fibres from the soleus of mice overexpressing uncoupling protein 3 (UCP-3tg) were compared with the performance of bundles from wild-type mice. Force and heat production were measured during a series of thirty 0.2 s isometric tetani at L(o), the length optimal for force. UCP-3tg fibres were as strong as the wild-type and maintained force in the series equally well; in the first tetanus force was 116.9 +/- 15.1 and 133.3 +/- 19.7 mN x mm(-2) respectively (all values means +/- S.E.M., n = 6 for UCP-3tg and n = 5 for wild-type). Heat production was partitioned into initial heat (due to contractile ATPases and the creatine kinase reaction) and recovery heat (due to other ATP-supplying processes) and expressed relative to the first cycle total heat. Initial heat production was similar for the UCP-3tg and wild-type fibres, decreasing during the series from 0.799 +/- 0.052 to 0.661 +/- 0.061 relative units (UCP-3tg), and from 0.806 +/- 0.024 to 0.729 +/- 0.039 relative units (wild-type). In both types the recovery heat was small at the start of the series and increased as the series progressed. At the end of the series, recovery heat production by UCP-3tg fibres, 1.575 +/- 0.246 relative units, was twice that of the wild-type fibres, 0.729 +/- 0.072 relative units. The extra recovery heat represents inefficient recovery in UCP-3tg fibres. This is the first direct evidence of enhanced energy dissipation as heat when UCP-3tg is overexpressed.
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- N A Curtin
- Biological Structure and Function Section, Division of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Silva JE. The multiple contributions of thyroid hormone to heat production. J Clin Invest 2001; 108:35-7. [PMID: 11435454 PMCID: PMC209345 DOI: 10.1172/jci13397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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- J E Silva
- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada.
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van der Velden J, Moorman AF, Stienen GJ. Age-dependent changes in myosin composition correlate with enhanced economy of contraction in guinea-pig hearts. J Physiol 1998; 507 ( Pt 2):497-510. [PMID: 9518708 PMCID: PMC2230794 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.497bt.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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1. The composition of myosin heavy chains (MHCs) was investigated in young (1- to 8-week-old) and mature (9- to 26-week-old) guinea-pigs using two monoclonal antibodies directed specifically against alpha-MHC and beta-MHC. In addition, maximum force and the rate of ATP consumption during isometric contraction were measured in chemically skinned trabeculae taken from the same hearts. 2. An age-dependent shift in the MHC composition was found. The alpha-MHC fraction decreased from 0.17 +/- 0.02 (mean +/- S.E.M.; n = 24) in young to 0.04 +/- 0.01 (n = 43) in mature hearts. This shift was correlated with a decrease in tension cost (i.e. ATP consumption per second per trabecula volume/force per cross-sectional area) from 4.1 +/- 0.2 mmol kN-1 m-1 s-1 (n = 23) in young to 2.5 +/- 0.1 mmol kN-1 m-1 s-1 (n = 57) in mature hearts. 3. From the results it follows that the slow beta-MHC isoform, which predominates in hearts of mature guinea-pigs, is about 5 times more economical than the fast alpha-MHC isoform. Calcium sensitivity of force and ATP consumption decreased with age, but stabilized within a few weeks after birth. The pronounced dependence of cardiac energetics on MHC composition should be taken into account in long-term studies of cardiac overload.
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- J van der Velden
- Laboratory for Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Constable JK, Barclay CJ, Gibbs CL. Energetics of lengthening in mouse and toad skeletal muscles. J Physiol 1997; 505 ( Pt 1):205-15. [PMID: 9409483 PMCID: PMC1160105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.205bc.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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1. The energetics of lengthening were studied in amphibian and mammalian skeletal muscle. The aims were to determine whether energy absorption during stretch is a general property of skeletal muscle and to investigate the influence of lengthening velocity on energy absorption. 2. Experiments were performed in vitro (21 degrees C) using bundles of muscle fibres from fast-twitch extensor digitorum longus and slow-twitch soleus muscles of the mouse and tibialis anterior muscles of a toad, Bufo marinus. Initial heat production and mechanical work done on muscles were measured during isovelocity lengthening. Enthalpy output during lengthening was calculated as the difference between the amount of heat produced and the work done. 3. For all three muscle types, more energy was put into muscles as work than was produced as heat. Thus, part of the energy put into muscles to stretch them must have been absorbed. 4. For all three muscle types, the amount of energy absorbed was constant at velocities exceeding approximately 0.5 Vmax (Vmax is the maximum shortening velocity), but was significantly lower at slow velocities of lengthening. The same amount of energy was absorbed by all three muscles when lengthened at > or = 0.5 Vmax. 5. It was concluded that absorption of energy during lengthening occurs in mammalian as well as amphibian muscle and that lengthening velocity has only a small effect on the amount of energy absorbed.
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- J K Constable
- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Potma EJ, van Graas IA, Stienen GJ. Effects of pH on myofibrillar ATPase activity in fast and slow skeletal muscle fibers of the rabbit. Biophys J 1994; 67:2404-10. [PMID: 7696480 PMCID: PMC1225625 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(94)80727-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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In permeabilized single fibers of fast (psoas) and slow (soleus) muscle from the rabbit, the effect of pH on isometric myofibrillar ATPase activity and force was studied at 15 degrees C, in the pH range 6.4-7.9. ATPase activity was measured photometrically by enzymatic coupling of the regeneration of ATP to the oxidation of NADH, present in the bathing solution. NADH absorbance at 340 nm was determined inside a measuring chamber. To measure ATP turnover in single soleus fibers accurately, a new measuring chamber (volume 4 microliters) was developed that produced a sensitivity approximately 8 times higher than the system previously used. Under control conditions (pH 7.3), the isometric force was 136 and 115 kN/m2 and the ATP turnover was 0.43 and 0.056 mmol per liter fiber volume per second in psoas and soleus fibers, respectively. Over the pH range studied, isometric force increased monotonically by a factor 1.7 for psoas and 1.2 for soleus fibers. In psoas the isometric ATPase activity remained constant, whereas in soleus it slightly decreased with increasing pH. The pH dependency of relative tension cost (isometric ATPase activity divided by force) was practically identical for psoas and soleus fibers. In both cases it decreased by about a factor 0.57 as pH increased from 6.4 to 7.9. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of cross-bridge kinetics. For both fiber types, estimates of the reaction rates and the distribution of cross-bridges and of their pH dependencies were obtained. A remarkable similarity was found between fast- and slow-twitch fibers in the effects of pH on the reaction rate constants.
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- E J Potma
- Laboratory for Physiology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1. The energetic cost of work performance by mouse fast- and slow-twitch muscle was assessed by measuring the rates of thermal and mechanical energy liberation of the muscles at 21 degrees C. Thermal energy (heat) liberation was measured using a fast-responding thermopile. 2. Bundles of muscles fibres from the slow-twitch soleus and fast-twitch extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles were used. Work output was controlled by performing isovelocity shortenings during the plateau of an isometric tetanus. A range of shortening velocities, spanning the possible range, was used for each muscle. 3. During tetanic contractions, the rate of heat production from EDL muscle was 134.2 +/- 11.4 mW/g. The rate of heat production by soleus muscle was only one-fifth as great (26.8 +/- 2.7 mW/g). 4. The maximum shortening velocity (Vmax) of EDL muscles was 2.5-fold greater than that for soleus muscles and it's force-velocity relationship was less curved. Peak power output from EDL muscles was 3-fold greater than that from soleus muscle. 5. During shortening, the rate of heat output from soleus muscles increased considerably above the isometric heat rate. In contrast to soleus muscle, the rate of heat production by EDL muscle increased by only a small fraction of the isometric heat rate. The magnitude of the increases in rate was proportional to shortening velocity. 6. The total rate of energy liberation (heat rate + power) by EDL muscle, shortening at 0.95 Vmax was 1.62 +/- 0.37 times greater than the isometric heat rate. In contrast, the rate of energy liberation from soleus muscle shortening at 0.95 Vmax was 5.21 +/- 0.58 times greater than its isometric heat rate. The peak mechanical efficiency (power/total energy rate) of the both muscles was approximately 30%.
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Affiliation(s)
- C J Barclay
- Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Muller A, van Hardeveld C, Simonides WS, van Rijn J. The elevation of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2(+)-ATPase levels by thyroid hormone in the L6 muscle cell line is potentiated by insulin-like growth factor-I. Biochem J 1991; 275 ( Pt 1):35-40. [PMID: 1826834 PMCID: PMC1150009 DOI: 10.1042/bj2750035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Abstract
Net synthesis of the fast-type sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2(+)-ATPase was studied in the muscle cell line L6AM using an immunochemical assay (e.l.i.s.a.). In addition, Ca2+ uptake by SR was monitored in muscle cell homogenates by a method employing the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura-2. Measurements were done both in differentiating myoblasts and in myotubes. Ca2(+)-ATPase levels were low (1 pmol/mg of protein) in undifferentiated myoblasts (controls) and only doubled over a period of 8 days in the absence of thyroid hormone (L-triiodothyronine; T3). This corresponded to a similar increase in Ca2+ uptake activity. Only half of the myoblasts fused under these conditions. Fusion was not increased in the presence of T3 (5 nM), but Ca2(+)-ATPase levels increased 4-fold and the Ca2+ uptake activity doubled compared with controls. In contrast, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) induced almost complete myotube formation (greater than 90% fusion), but only slightly stimulated (50%) net Ca2(+)-ATPase synthesis above control levels. However, the doubling of the Ca2+ uptake stimulation by IGF-I was comparable with that caused by T3. The effects of T3 plus IGF-I on Ca2(+)-ATPase levels and Ca2+ uptake activity were more than additive. Furthermore, the temporal relationship between the induction of Ca2(+)-ATPase net synthesis and Ca2+ uptake activity was identical with the two hormones. Qualitatively similar results were obtained when T3 and IGF-I were added to maximally fused cell cultures. The enhanced effect of T3 on Ca2(+)-ATPase net synthesis and Ca2+ uptake activity in the presence of IGF-I cannot therefore be explained by an increased myotube formation stimulated by the latter. In both differentiating myoblasts and myotubes the effect of T3 was more prominent on Ca2(+)-ATPase net synthesis than on Ca2+ uptake activity, whereas in myotubes the opposite was observed for IGF-I. This could imply complementary actions of the two agents in the development of a functional SR.
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Affiliation(s)
- A Muller
- Laboratory for Physiology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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