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O'Brien EC, Geraghty AA, Kilbane MT, McKenna MJ, McAuliffe FM. Bone resorption and dietary calcium in pregnancy-a window to future maternal bone health. Osteoporos Int 2021; 32:1803-1814. [PMID: 33659997 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-021-05891-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Pregnancy is characterized by increased bone turnover and reversible loss of bone mineral density (BMD) to meet fetal calcium demands. The long-term effect of bone turnover and maternal diet in pregnancy on maternal bone is not well established. OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine if an association exists between [1] bone resorption, [2] dietary calcium, and [3] serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in pregnancy with maternal BMD 5-year postpartum. DESIGN This is a prospective, longitudinal study of 107 women recruited to the ROLO low glycemic index dietary intervention trial in pregnancy and followed-up at 13, 28, and 34 weeks' gestation and 5 years' postpartum. At 13 and 28 weeks' gestation, a biomarker of bone resorption, urine cross-linked N-telopeptide of type I collagen (uNTX), was measured. At the 5-year follow-up BMD was measured using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Anthropometry, dietary intakes, and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D were measured in pregnancy and at 5 years. Multiple linear regression, controlling for confounders, was used for analysis. RESULTS Mean BMD at 5 years was 1.208 g/cm2. In pregnancy, 24-34% reported dietary calcium intakes <800 mg/day. Vitamin D deficiency (< 30 nmol/L) was observed in 38-41% of women in pregnancy and in 29% of women at the 5-year follow-up. At 13 and 28 weeks' gestation, uNTX levels greater than the median were associated with 0.060 and 0.050 g/cm2 lower BMD 5 years later, respectively. Dietary calcium <800 mg/day in trimester 3 was associated with 0.072 g/cm2 lower BMD 5 years later. Vitamin D deficiency at 5 years, but not in pregnancy, was associated with lower BMD. CONCLUSION Higher bone resorption and low dietary calcium in pregnancy were associated with lower BMD 5 years later. These findings could enable the identification of women at risk of declining of BMD in later life, but further research is needed. Adequate dietary calcium should be advised in the antenatal setting to promote lifelong maternal bone health.
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- E C O'Brien
- UCD Perinatal Research Centre, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Perinatal Research Centre, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Perinatal Research Centre, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Department of Endocrinology, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD Perinatal Research Centre, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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PURPOSE My journey to the stars began as I - along with the whole world - stood still and watched Neil Armstrong take those first small steps on the Moon. Fast forward 50 years and NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Christina Koch each spend nearly a year in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS), a remarkable multinational collaborative project and floating U.S. National Laboratory that has supported continuous human presence in low Earth orbit for the past 20 years. Marking a new era of human space exploration, the first commercial rocket, SpaceX Falcon 9, recently launched NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavor to the ISS and returned safely to Earth. NASA and its commercial partners are rapidly advancing innovative space technologies, and with the recently announced Artemis team of astronauts, plans to send the first woman and next man back to the moon and establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade. Humankind will then be poised to take the next giant leap - pioneering human exploration of Mars. CONCLUSIONS Historically, fewer than 600 individuals have participated in spaceflight, the vast majority of whom have been middle aged males (35-55 years) on short duration missions (less than 20 days). Thus, as the number and diversity of space travelers increase, a better understanding of how long-duration spaceflight affects human health is essential to maintaining individual astronaut performance during, and improving disease and aging trajectories following, future exploration missions. Here, I review findings from our NASA Twins Study and Telomeres investigations, highlighting potential mechanistic roles of chronic space radiation exposure in changes in telomere length and persistent DNA damage responses associated with long-duration spaceflight. Importantly, similar trends were observed in prostate cancer patients undergoing intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), additional support specifically for the role of radiation exposure. Individual differences in response were also observed in both cohorts, underscoring the importance of developing personalized approaches for evaluating human health effects and long-term outcomes associated with radiation exposures, whether on Earth or living in the extreme environment of space.
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- Susan M Bailey
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.,Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.,Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.,Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Grigorev K, Foox J, Bezdan D, Butler D, Luxton JJ, Reed J, McKenna MJ, Taylor L, George KA, Meydan C, Bailey SM, Mason CE. Haplotype diversity and sequence heterogeneity of human telomeres. Genome Res 2021; 31:1269-1279. [PMID: 34162698 PMCID: PMC8256856 DOI: 10.1101/gr.274639.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Telomeres are regions of repetitive nucleotide sequences capping the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes that protect against deterioration, and whose lengths can be correlated with age and adverse health risk factors. Yet, given their length and repetitive nature, telomeric regions are not easily reconstructed from short-read sequencing, thus making telomere sequencing, mapping, and variant resolution challenging problems. Recently, long-read sequencing, with read lengths measuring in hundreds of kilobase pairs, has made it possible to routinely read into telomeric regions and inspect their sequence structure. Here, we describe a framework for extracting telomeric reads from whole-genome single-molecule sequencing experiments, including de novo identification of telomere repeat motifs and repeat types, and also describe their sequence variation. We find that long, complex telomeric stretches and repeats can be accurately captured with long-read sequencing, observe extensive sequence heterogeneity of human telomeres, discover and localize noncanonical telomere sequence motifs (both previously reported, as well as novel), and validate them in short-read sequence data. These data reveal extensive intra- and inter-population diversity of repeats in telomeric haplotypes, reveal higher paternal inheritance of telomeric variants, and represent the first motif composition maps of multi-kilobase-pair human telomeric haplotypes across three distinct ancestries (Ashkenazi, Chinese, and Utah), which can aid in future studies of genetic variation, aging, and genome biology.
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- Kirill Grigorev
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10021, USA
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10021, USA
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, New York, New York 10065, USA
- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
- NGS Competence Center Tübingen, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10021, USA
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, New York, New York 10065, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10021, USA
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, New York, New York 10065, USA
- The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York 10065, USA
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Luxton JJ, McKenna MJ, Lewis AM, Taylor LE, Jhavar SG, Swanson GP, Bailey SM. Telomere Length Dynamics and Chromosomal Instability for Predicting Individual Radiosensitivity and Risk via Machine Learning. J Pers Med 2021; 11:188. [PMID: 33800260 PMCID: PMC8002073 DOI: 10.3390/jpm11030188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Revised: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The ability to predict a cancer patient's response to radiotherapy and risk of developing adverse late health effects would greatly improve personalized treatment regimens and individual outcomes. Telomeres represent a compelling biomarker of individual radiosensitivity and risk, as exposure can result in dysfunctional telomere pathologies that coincidentally overlap with many radiation-induced late effects, ranging from degenerative conditions like fibrosis and cardiovascular disease to proliferative pathologies like cancer. Here, telomere length was longitudinally assessed in a cohort of fifteen prostate cancer patients undergoing Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) utilizing Telomere Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (Telo-FISH). To evaluate genome instability and enhance predictions for individual patient risk of secondary malignancy, chromosome aberrations were assessed utilizing directional Genomic Hybridization (dGH) for high-resolution inversion detection. We present the first implementation of individual telomere length data in a machine learning model, XGBoost, trained on pre-radiotherapy (baseline) and in vitro exposed (4 Gy γ-rays) telomere length measurements, to predict post radiotherapy telomeric outcomes, which together with chromosomal instability provide insight into individual radiosensitivity and risk for radiation-induced late effects.
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- Jared J. Luxton
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; (J.J.L.); (M.J.M.); (A.M.L.); (L.E.T.)
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; (J.J.L.); (M.J.M.); (A.M.L.); (L.E.T.)
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; (J.J.L.); (M.J.M.); (A.M.L.); (L.E.T.)
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; (J.J.L.); (M.J.M.); (A.M.L.); (L.E.T.)
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- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, TX 76508, USA; (S.G.J.); (G.P.S.)
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- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, TX 76508, USA; (S.G.J.); (G.P.S.)
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA; (J.J.L.); (M.J.M.); (A.M.L.); (L.E.T.)
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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Luxton JJ, McKenna MJ, Taylor LE, George KA, Zwart SR, Crucian BE, Drel VR, Garrett-Bakelman FE, Mackay MJ, Butler D, Foox J, Grigorev K, Bezdan D, Meydan C, Smith SM, Sharma K, Mason CE, Bailey SM. Temporal Telomere and DNA Damage Responses in the Space Radiation Environment. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108435. [PMID: 33242411 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Telomeres, repetitive terminal features of chromosomes essential for maintaining genome integrity, shorten with cell division, lifestyle factors and stresses, and environmental exposures, and so they provide a robust biomarker of health, aging, and age-related diseases. We assessed telomere length dynamics (changes over time) in three unrelated astronauts before, during, and after 1-year or 6-month missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Similar to our results for National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) One-Year Mission twin astronaut (Garrett-Bakelman et al., 2019), significantly longer telomeres were observed during spaceflight for two 6-month mission astronauts. Furthermore, telomere length shortened rapidly after return to Earth for all three crewmembers and, overall, telomere length tended to be shorter after spaceflight than before spaceflight. Consistent with chronic exposure to the space radiation environment, signatures of persistent DNA damage responses were also detected, including mitochondrial and oxidative stress, inflammation, and telomeric and chromosomal aberrations, which together provide potential mechanistic insight into spaceflight-specific telomere elongation.
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- Jared J Luxton
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Center for Renal Precision Medicine, UT Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Renal Precision Medicine, UT Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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Luxton JJ, McKenna MJ, Lewis A, Taylor LE, George KA, Dixit SM, Moniz M, Benegas W, Mackay MJ, Mozsary C, Butler D, Bezdan D, Meydan C, Crucian BE, Zwart SR, Smith SM, Mason CE, Bailey SM. Telomere Length Dynamics and DNA Damage Responses Associated with Long-Duration Spaceflight. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108457. [PMID: 33242406 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Revised: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Telomere length dynamics and DNA damage responses were assessed before, during, and after one-year or shorter duration missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in a comparatively large cohort of astronauts (n = 11). Although generally healthy individuals, astronauts tended to have significantly shorter telomeres and lower telomerase activity than age- and sex-matched ground controls before and after spaceflight. Although telomeres were longer during spaceflight irrespective of mission duration, telomere length shortened rapidly upon return to Earth, and overall astronauts had shorter telomeres after spaceflight than they did before; inter-individual differences were identified. During spaceflight, all crewmembers experienced oxidative stress, which positively correlated with telomere length dynamics. Significantly increased frequencies of chromosomal inversions were observed during and after spaceflight; changes in cell populations were also detected. We propose a telomeric adaptive response to chronic oxidative damage in extreme environments, whereby the telomerase-independent Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) pathway is transiently activated in normal somatic cells.
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- Jared J Luxton
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Center for Molecular Dynamics - Nepal (CMDN), Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Human Health and Performance Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Human Health and Performance Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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Kilbane MT, Crowley RK, Twomey PJ, Maher C, McKenna MJ. Anorexia Nervosa with Markedly High Bone Turnover and Hyperphosphatemia During Refeeding Rectified by Denosumab. Osteoporos Int 2020; 31:1395-1398. [PMID: 31975181 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-020-05307-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
We describe a unique case of hyperphosphatemia associated with a very high bone turnover rate in a 51-year-old postmenopausal woman with undiagnosed anorexia nervosa (AN) who presented with a low-trauma hip fracture. In view of her severely malnourished state, she was not fit for surgery. She was treated according to a refeeding protocol that mandated bed rest. Contrary to expectation, she developed sustained hyperphosphatemia and borderline hypercalcemia. Bone remodelling markers, both resorption and formation, were markedly elevated. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) was low-normal at 1.7 pmol/L, C-terminal fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) was high at 293 RU/ml, but tubular maximum reabsorption of phosphate (TmPO4/GFR) was elevated at 1.93 mmol/L. Denosumab 60 mg was administered that was followed by: rapid normalisation of serum phosphate; normalisation of resorption markers, transient hypocalcaemia with secondary hyperparathyroidism, and normalisation of both TmPO4/GFR and C-terminal FGF23. We speculate that prolonged immobilization as part of AN management led to a high remodelling state followed by hyperphosphatemia and high-normal calcium with appropriate suppression of PTH and that marked hyperphosphatemia and high TmP/GFR despite high FGF23 indicates the necessity of PTH adequacy for excess FGF23 to lower TmP/GFR.
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- M T Kilbane
- Department of Clinical Chemistry, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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- Department of Endocrinology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Clinical Chemistry, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Department of Endocrinology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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McKenna MJ, Flynn MAT. Covid-19, Cocooning and Vitamin D Intake Requirements. Ir Med J 2020; 113:79. [PMID: 32603573] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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- M J McKenna
- UCD School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin
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- Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
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Robinson E, McKenna MJ, Bedford JS, Goodwin EH, Cornforth MN, Bailey SM, Ray FA. Directional Genomic Hybridization (dGH) for Detection of Intrachromosomal Rearrangements. Methods Mol Biol 2020; 1984:107-116. [PMID: 31267426 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9432-8_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH) techniques, including whole chromosome painting (WCP), spectral karyotyping (SKY), and multicolor FISH (mFISH), are used extensively to characterize and enumerate inter-chromosomal rearrangements (e.g., translocations). Directional genomic hybridization (dGH) is a relatively new cytogenomics-based methodology that combines the strand-specific strategy of Chromosome Orientation-FISH (CO-FISH) with bioinformatics-driven design of single-stranded DNA probe sets that are unique and of like orientation. Such a strategy produces directional probe sets that hybridize to one-and only one-chromatid of prepared (single-stranded) metaphase chromosomes, thereby facilitating high-resolution visualization of intra-chromosomal rearrangements, specifically inversions, and greatly improving our ability to detect such otherwise cryptic structural variants within the genome. In addition to its usefulness in the study of various disease states, including cancer, relevant applications of dGH include monitoring cytogenetic damage caused by exposure to clastogenic agents (e.g., ionizing radiation). dGH can be applied as a discovery tool to globally assess the integrity of the genome, but it can also be used in a more targeted fashion to interrogate fine structural changes at the kilobase level. Consequently, dGH is capable of providing significant mechanistic insight and information not easily obtainable by other approaches.
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Wyckelsma VL, Perry BD, Bangsbo J, McKenna MJ. Inactivity and exercise training differentially regulate abundance of Na +-K +-ATPase in human skeletal muscle. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2019; 127:905-920. [PMID: 31369327 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01076.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Physical inactivity is a global health risk that can be addressed through application of exercise training suitable for an individual's health and age. People's willingness to participate in physical activity is often limited by an initially poor physical capability and early onset of fatigue. One factor associated with muscle fatigue during intense contractions is an inexcitability of skeletal muscle cells, reflecting impaired transmembrane Na+/K+ exchange and membrane depolarization, which are regulated via the transmembranous protein Na+-K+-ATPase (NKA). This short review focuses on the plasticity of NKA in skeletal muscle in humans after periods of altered usage, exploring NKA upregulation with exercise training and downregulation with physical inactivity. In human skeletal muscle, the NKA content quantified by [3H]ouabain binding site content shows robust, yet tightly constrained, upregulation of 8-22% with physical training, across a broad range of exercise training types. Muscle NKA content in humans undergoes extensive downregulation with injury that involves substantial muscular inactivity. Surprisingly, however, no reduction in NKA content was found in the single study that investigated short-term disuse. Despite clear findings that exercise training and injury modulate NKA content, the adaptability of the individual NKA isoforms in muscle (α1-3 and β1-3) and of the accessory and regulatory protein FXYD1 are surprisingly inconsistent across studies, for exercise training as well as for injury/disuse. Potential reasons for this are explored. Finally, we provide suggestions for future studies to provide greater understanding of NKA regulation during exercise training and inactivity in humans.
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- V L Wyckelsma
- Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Luxton JJ, McKenna MJ, Taylor L, Swanson GP, Bailey SM. Abstract 4869: Chromosomal and telomeric biomarkers of normal tissue injury to evaluate risk of secondary malignancy following IMRT for prostate cancer. Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2019-4869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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An overall intent of radiotherapy is to precisely target tumor cells, while minimizing exposures to surrounding normal tissue. Despite successes, there is growing concern that an unacceptably large volume of normal tissue is unavoidably exposed. Chromosome aberrations provide a direct measure of ionizing radiation (IR)-induced DNA damage, as well as an indirect measure of future risk since they are associated with virtually all known cancers. Such structural variants (SVs) include translocations (rearrangements between chromosomes) and inversions (rearrangements within chromosomes), the latter being recently identified as part of a distinctive mutational signature associated with radiation therapy-induced second malignancies. Directional Genomic Hybridization (dGH), is a strand-specific cytogenomics-based methodology for cell-by-cell, high-resolution detection of all SVs, particularly inversions, which when combined with compatible subtelomere probes (Telo-dGH), can be used to distinguish inversions from recombination events (sister chromatid exchange) involving chromosomal termini. Telomeres are critical structural elements that serve to protect the physical ends of chromosomes. Dysfunctional telomeres are associated with instability and carcinogenesis, as well as with a variety of other age-related pathologies (e.g., cardiovascular disease). We are validating Telo-dGH as a prospective “personalized” approach of evaluating normal tissue injury, and therefore future risk, associated with radiation therapy - regardless of tumor type or treatment modality. Here, we report results of monitoring prostate cancer patients before and after intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) to assess radiosensitivity (toxicity), as well as risk of secondary malignancy and other degenerative late effects. Such a strategy has the potential to better inform patient treatment and management decisions based on predicted individual risk.
Citation Format: Jared J. Luxton, Miles J. McKenna, Lynn Taylor, Gregory P. Swanson, Susan M. Bailey. Chromosomal and telomeric biomarkers of normal tissue injury to evaluate risk of secondary malignancy following IMRT for prostate cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 4869.
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- 1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
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Garrett-Bakelman FE, Darshi M, Green SJ, Gur RC, Lin L, Macias BR, McKenna MJ, Meydan C, Mishra T, Nasrini J, Piening BD, Rizzardi LF, Sharma K, Siamwala JH, Taylor L, Vitaterna MH, Afkarian M, Afshinnekoo E, Ahadi S, Ambati A, Arya M, Bezdan D, Callahan CM, Chen S, Choi AMK, Chlipala GE, Contrepois K, Covington M, Crucian BE, De Vivo I, Dinges DF, Ebert DJ, Feinberg JI, Gandara JA, George KA, Goutsias J, Grills GS, Hargens AR, Heer M, Hillary RP, Hoofnagle AN, Hook VYH, Jenkinson G, Jiang P, Keshavarzian A, Laurie SS, Lee-McMullen B, Lumpkins SB, MacKay M, Maienschein-Cline MG, Melnick AM, Moore TM, Nakahira K, Patel HH, Pietrzyk R, Rao V, Saito R, Salins DN, Schilling JM, Sears DD, Sheridan CK, Stenger MB, Tryggvadottir R, Urban AE, Vaisar T, Van Espen B, Zhang J, Ziegler MG, Zwart SR, Charles JB, Kundrot CE, Scott GBI, Bailey SM, Basner M, Feinberg AP, Lee SMC, Mason CE, Mignot E, Rana BK, Smith SM, Snyder MP, Turek FW. The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight. Science 2019; 364:364/6436/eaau8650. [PMID: 30975860 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau8650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 399] [Impact Index Per Article: 79.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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To understand the health impact of long-duration spaceflight, one identical twin astronaut was monitored before, during, and after a 1-year mission onboard the International Space Station; his twin served as a genetically matched ground control. Longitudinal assessments identified spaceflight-specific changes, including decreased body mass, telomere elongation, genome instability, carotid artery distension and increased intima-media thickness, altered ocular structure, transcriptional and metabolic changes, DNA methylation changes in immune and oxidative stress-related pathways, gastrointestinal microbiota alterations, and some cognitive decline postflight. Although average telomere length, global gene expression, and microbiome changes returned to near preflight levels within 6 months after return to Earth, increased numbers of short telomeres were observed and expression of some genes was still disrupted. These multiomic, molecular, physiological, and behavioral datasets provide a valuable roadmap of the putative health risks for future human spaceflight.
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- Francine E Garrett-Bakelman
- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Center for Renal Precision Medicine, University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,The Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, New York, NY, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Renal Precision Medicine, University of Texas Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,The Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,The Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Houston, TX, USA
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Houston, TX, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Houston, TX, USA
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Houston, TX, USA.
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- Space Life and Physical Sciences Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA.
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- National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. .,The Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, New York, NY, USA.,The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, New York, NY, USA.,The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, New York, NY, USA
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- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Houston, TX, USA.
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McKenna MJ, Robinson E, Taylor L, Tompkins C, Cornforth MN, Simon SL, Bailey SM. Chromosome Translocations, Inversions and Telomere Length for Retrospective Biodosimetry on Exposed U.S. Atomic Veterans. Radiat Res 2019; 191:311-322. [PMID: 30714852 PMCID: PMC6492561 DOI: 10.1667/rr15240.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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It has now been over 60 years since U.S. nuclear testing was conducted in the Pacific islands and Nevada, exposing military personnel to varying levels of ionizing radiation. Actual doses are not well-established, as film badges in the 1950s had many limitations. We sought a means of independently assessing dose for comparison with historical film badge records and dose reconstruction conducted in parallel. For the purpose of quantitative retrospective biodosimetry, peripheral blood samples from 12 exposed veterans and 12 age-matched (>80 years) veteran controls were collected and evaluated for radiation-induced chromosome damage utilizing directional genomic hybridization (dGH), a cytogenomics-based methodology that facilitates simultaneous detection of translocations and inversions. Standard calibration curves were constructed from six male volunteers in their mid-20s to reflect the age range of the veterans at time of exposure. Doses were estimated for each veteran using translocation and inversion rates independently; however, combining them by a weighted-average generally improved the accuracy of dose estimations. Various confounding factors were also evaluated for potential effects on chromosome aberration frequencies. Perhaps not surprisingly, smoking and age-associated increases in background frequencies of inversions were observed. Telomere length was also measured, and inverse relationships with both age and combined weighted dose estimates were observed. Interestingly, smokers in the non-exposed control veteran cohort displayed similar telomere lengths as those in the never-smoker exposed veteran group, suggesting that chronic smoking had as much effect on telomere length as a single exposure to radioactive fallout. Taken together, we find that our approach of combined chromosome aberration-based retrospective biodosimetry provided reliable dose estimation capability, particularly on a group average basis, for exposures above statistical detection limits.
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- Miles J. McKenna
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
- KromaTiD, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
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- Cell and Molecular Biology Program Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Cell and Molecular Biology Program Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
- KromaTiD, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado
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Simon SL, Bailey SM, Beck HL, Boice JD, Bouville A, Brill AB, Cornforth MN, Inskip PD, McKenna MJ, Mumma MT, Salazar SI, Ukwuani A. Estimation of Radiation Doses to U.S. Military Test Participants from Nuclear Testing: A Comparison of Historical Film-Badge Measurements, Dose Reconstruction and Retrospective Biodosimetry. Radiat Res 2019; 191:297-310. [PMID: 30789797 DOI: 10.1667/rr15247.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Retrospective radiation dose estimations, whether based on physical or biological measurements, or on theoretical dose reconstruction, are limited in their precision and reliability, particularly for exposures that occurred many decades ago. Here, we studied living U.S. military test participants, believed to have received high-dose radiation exposures during nuclear testing-related activities approximately six decades ago, with two primary goals in mind. The first was to compare three different approaches of assessing past radiation exposures: 1. Historical personnel monitoring data alone; 2. Dose reconstruction based on varying levels of completeness of individual information, which can include film badge data; and 3. Retrospective biodosimetry using chromosome aberrations in peripheral blood lymphocytes. The second goal was to use the collected data to make the best possible estimates of bone marrow dose received by a group with the highest military recorded radiation doses of any currently living military test participants. Six nuclear test participants studied had been on Rongerik Atoll during the 1954 CASTLE Bravo nuclear test. Another six were present at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and/or Pacific Proving Ground (PPG) and were believed to have received relatively high-dose exposures at those locations. All were interviewed, and all provided a blood sample for cytogenetic analysis. Military dose records for each test participant, as recorded in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Nuclear Test Review and Information System, were used as the basis for historical film badge records and provided exposure scenario information to estimate dose via dose reconstruction. Dose to bone marrow was also estimated utilizing directional genomic hybridization (dGH) for high-resolution detection of radiation-induced chromosomal translocations and inversions, the latter being demonstrated for the first time for the purpose of retrospective biodosimetry. As the true dose for each test participant is not known these many decades after exposure, this study gauged the congruence of different methods by assessing the degree of correlation and degree of systematic differences. Overall, the best agreement between methods, defined by statistically significant correlations and small systematic differences, was between doses estimated by a dose reconstruction methodology that exploited all the available individual detail and the biodosimetry methodology derived from a weighted average dose determined from chromosomal translocation and inversion rates. Employing such a strategy, we found that the Rongerik veterans who participated in this study appear to have received, on average, bone marrow equivalent doses on the order of 300-400 mSv, while the NTS/ PPG participants appear to have received approximately 250-300 mSv. The results show that even for nuclear events that occurred six decades in the past, biological signatures of exposure are still present, and when taken together, chromosomal translocations and inversions can serve as reliable retrospective biodosimeters, particularly on a group-average basis, when doses received are greater than statistically-determined detection limits for the biological assays used.
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- Steven L Simon
- a Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- b Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.,c KromaTiD, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado
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- e National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, Maryland.,f Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
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- a Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- f Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.,g Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- c KromaTiD, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado.,h Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
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- a Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- b Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.,c KromaTiD, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado
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- j Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
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- a Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Martin-Grace J, McKenna MJ. An Approach to Hypophosphataemia. Ir Med J 2018; 111:761. [PMID: 30489055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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- J Martin-Grace
- Dept of Endocrinology, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4
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- Dept of Endocrinology, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4
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McKenna MJ, Bailey SM. Chromosomal and telomeric biomarkers of normal tissue injury to evaluate risk of degenerative health effects (secondary malignancy, cardiovascular disease) post radiation therapy. Transl Cancer Res 2017. [DOI: 10.21037/tcr.2017.05.20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The cytogenomics-based methodology of Directional Genomic Hybridization (dGH™) emerged from the concept of strand-specific hybridization, first made possible by Chromosome Orientation FISH (CO-FISH), the utility of which was demonstrated in a variety of early applications, often involving telomeres. Similar to standard whole chromosome painting (FISH), dGH™ is capable of identifying inter-chromosomal rearrangements (translocations between chromosomes), but its distinctive strength stems from its ability to detect intra-chromosomal rearrangements (inversions within chromosomes), and to do so at higher resolution than previously possible. dGH™ brings together the strand specificity and directionality of CO-FISH with sophisticated bioinformatics-based oligonucleotide probe design to unique sequences. dGH™ serves not only as a powerful discovery tool-capable of interrogating the entire genome at the megabase level-it can also be used for high-resolution targeted detection of known inversions, a valuable attribute in both research and clinical settings. Detection of chromosomal inversions, particularly small ones, poses a formidable challenge for more traditional cytogenetic approaches, especially when they occur near the ends or telomeric regions. Here, we describe Telo-dGH™, a strand-specific scheme that utilizes dGH™ in combination with telomere CO-FISH to differentiate between terminal exchange events, specifically terminal inversions, and an altogether different form of genetic recombination that often occurs near the telomere, namely sister chromatid exchange (SCE).
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- Miles J McKenna
- Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, 437 MRB Bldg., 1681 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
- KromaTiD Inc., 320 East Vine Drive, Fort Collins, CO, 80524, USA
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- KromaTiD Inc., 320 East Vine Drive, Fort Collins, CO, 80524, USA
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- KromaTiD Inc., 320 East Vine Drive, Fort Collins, CO, 80524, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, 437 MRB Bldg., 1681 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA.
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Lamboley CR, Wyckelsma VL, McKenna MJ, Murphy RM, Lamb GD. Ca(2+) leakage out of the sarcoplasmic reticulum is increased in type I skeletal muscle fibres in aged humans. J Physiol 2015; 594:469-81. [PMID: 26574292 DOI: 10.1113/jp271382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Accepted: 11/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS The amount of Ca(2+) stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of muscle fibres is decreased in aged individuals, and an important question is whether this results from increased Ca(2+) leakage out through the Ca(2+) release channels (ryanodine receptors; RyRs). The present study examined the effects of blocking the RyRs with Mg(2+), or applying a strong reducing treatment, on net Ca(2+) accumulation by the SR in skinned muscle fibres from Old (∼70 years) and Young (∼24 years) adults. Raising cytoplasmic [Mg(2+)] and reducing treatment increased net SR Ca(2+) accumulation in type I fibres of Old subjects relative to that in Young. The densities of RyRs and dihydropyridine receptors were not significantly changed in the muscle of Old subjects. These findings indicate that oxidative modification of the RyRs causes increased Ca(2+) leakage from the SR in muscle fibres in Old subjects, which probably deleteriously affects normal muscle function both directly and indirectly. ABSTRACT The present study examined whether the lower Ca(2+) storage levels in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in vastus lateralis muscle fibres in Old (70 ± 4 years) relative to Young (24 ± 4 years) human subjects is the result of increased leakage of Ca(2+) out of the SR through the Ca(2+) release channels/ryanodine receptors (RyRs) and due to oxidative modification of the RyRs. SR Ca(2+) accumulation in mechanically skinned muscle fibres was examined in the presence of 1, 3 or 10 mm cytoplasmic Mg(2+) because raising [Mg(2+)] strongly inhibits Ca(2+) efflux through the RyRs. In type I fibres of Old subjects, SR Ca(2+) accumulation in the presence of 1 mm Mg(2+) approached saturation at shorter loading times than in Young subjects, consistent with Ca(2+) leakage limiting net uptake, and raising [Mg(2+)] to 10 mm in such fibres increased maximal SR Ca(2+) accumulation. No significant differences were seen in type II fibres. Treatment with dithiothreitol (10 mm for 5 min), a strong reducing agent, also increased maximal SR Ca(2+) accumulation at 1 mm Mg(2+) in type I fibres of Old subjects but not in other fibres. The densities of dihydropyridine receptors and RyRs were not significantly different in muscles of Old relative to Young subjects. These findings indicate that Ca(2+) leakage from the SR is increased in type I fibres in Old subjects by reversible oxidative modification of the RyRs; this increased SR Ca(2+) leak is expected to have both direct and indirect deleterious effects on Ca(2+) movements and muscle function.
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- C R Lamboley
- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
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Sishc BJ, Nelson CB, McKenna MJ, Battaglia CLR, Herndon A, Idate R, Liber HL, Bailey SM. Telomeres and Telomerase in the Radiation Response: Implications for Instability, Reprograming, and Carcinogenesis. Front Oncol 2015; 5:257. [PMID: 26636039 PMCID: PMC4656829 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 11/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes comprised of tandem arrays of repetitive DNA sequence that serve to protect chromosomal termini from inappropriate degradation, as well as to prevent these natural DNA ends from being recognized as broken DNA (double-strand breaks) and triggering of inappropriate DNA damage responses. Preservation of telomere length requires telomerase, the specialized reverse transcriptase capable of maintaining telomere length via template-mediated addition of telomeric repeats onto the ends of newly synthesized chromosomes. Loss of either end-capping function or telomere length maintenance has been associated with genomic instability or senescence in a variety of settings; therefore, telomeres and telomerase have well-established connections to cancer and aging. It has long been recognized that oxidative stress promotes shortening of telomeres, and that telomerase activity is a radiation-inducible function. However, the effects of ionizing radiation (IR) exposure on telomeres per se are much less well understood and appreciated. To gain a deeper understanding of the roles, telomeres and telomerase play in the response of human cells to IRs of different qualities, we tracked changes in telomeric end-capping function, telomere length, and telomerase activity in panels of mammary epithelial and hematopoietic cell lines exposed to low linear energy transfer (LET) gamma(γ)-rays or high LET, high charge, high energy (HZE) particles, delivered either acutely or at low dose rates. In addition to demonstrating that dysfunctional telomeres contribute to IR-induced mutation frequencies and genome instability, we reveal non-canonical roles for telomerase, in that telomerase activity was required for IR-induced enrichment of mammary epithelial putative stem/progenitor cell populations, a finding also suggestive of cellular reprograming. Taken together, the results reported here establish the critical importance of telomeres and telomerase in the radiation response and, as such, have compelling implications not only for accelerated tumor repopulation following radiation therapy but also for carcinogenic potential following low dose exposures as well, including those of relevance to spaceflight-associated galactic cosmic radiations.
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- Brock J Sishc
- Division of Molecular Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas , Dallas, TX , USA ; Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO , USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO , USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO , USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO , USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO , USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO , USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO , USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO , USA
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Healy GM, Woods C, Heffernan E, McKenna MJ. Paget's Disease of Bone: Progress Towards Remission and Prevention. Ir Med J 2015; 108:316-317. [PMID: 26817293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Paget's disease of bone is a focal disorder of bone remodelling leading to areas of enlarged weakened bone manifesting with chronic pain, bone deformity, and fracture. Predominantly a disease of older adults, its prevalence is strongly linked to European ancestry. Pre-disposing factors include exposure to viruses such as measles and mutations in the SQSTM1 gene. PDB is diagnosed on plain radiograph, the extent of disease is delineated by radionuclide bone imaging, the degree of activity is quantified biochemically, and it is treated with a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate, most effectively by a single intravenous infusion of zoledronate 5mg. Lifelong specialist follow-up is advocated because some patients require repeated infusions. Current clinical research is focusing on genetic factors in order to identify patients suitable for prevention.
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Harty L, Clare J, Finnerty D, van der Kamp S, Kennedy F, Callanan I, McKenna MJ, FitzGerald O. Guideline Promotion Increases Prescription of Bone Protection with Steroids in Hospitalised Patients. Ir Med J 2015; 108:216-217. [PMID: 26349354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Guidelines for the prevention of glucocorticoid (GC) induced osteoporosis (GIOP) were implemented in a level 5 Irish Hospital with cross sectional audit of inpatient prescribing undertaken before and after. Prior to guideline implementation, elemental calcium (Ca) with Vitamin D (VitD) was prescribed for 11/66 (17%) of patients on GCs with 2/66 (3%) also receiving bisphosphonate (BP) therapy. Subsequent to guideline implementation, Ca with VitD was prescribed for 19/55 (35%) of patients on GCs with 11/55 (20%) also receiving BP therapy, representing a 2 and 6 fold respective increase. Internal promotion of guidelines is an effective strategy for healthcare improvement but needs refinement with or without repetition to achieve better patient outcomes.
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Lamboley CR, Wyckelsma VL, Dutka TL, McKenna MJ, Murphy RM, Lamb GD. Contractile properties and sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium content in type I and type II skeletal muscle fibres in active aged humans. J Physiol 2015; 593:2499-514. [PMID: 25809942 DOI: 10.1113/jp270179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2015] [Accepted: 03/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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KEY POINTS Muscle weakness in old age is due in large part to an overall loss of skeletal muscle tissue, but it remains uncertain how much also stems from alterations in the properties of the individual muscle fibres. This study examined the contractile properties and amount of stored intracellular calcium in single muscle fibres of Old (70 ± 4 years) and Young (22 ± 3 years) adults. The maximum level of force production (per unit cross-sectional area) in fast twitch fibres in Old subjects was lower than in Young subjects, and the fibres were also less sensitive to activation by calcium. The amount of calcium stored inside muscle fibres and available to trigger contraction was also lower in both fast- and slow-twitch muscle fibres in the Old subjects. These findings indicate that muscle weakness in old age stems in part from an impaired capacity for force production in the individual muscle fibres. ABSTRACT This study examined the contractile properties and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) content in mechanically skinned vastus lateralis muscle fibres of Old (70 ± 4 years) and Young (22 ± 3 years) humans to investigate whether changes in muscle fibre properties contribute to muscle weakness in old age. In type II fibres of Old subjects, specific force was reduced by ∼17% and Ca(2+) sensitivity was also reduced (pCa50 decreased ∼0.05 pCa units) relative to that in Young. S-Glutathionylation of fast troponin I (TnIf ) markedly increased Ca(2+) sensitivity in type II fibres, but the increase was significantly smaller in Old versus Young (+0.136 and +0.164 pCa unit increases, respectively). Endogenous and maximal SR Ca(2+) content were significantly smaller in both type I and type II fibres in Old subjects. In fibres of Young, the SR could be nearly fully depleted of Ca(2+) by a combined caffeine and low Mg(2+) stimulus, whereas in fibres of Old the amount of non-releasable Ca(2+) was significantly increased (by > 12% of endogenous Ca(2+) content). Western blotting showed an increased proportion of type I fibres in Old subjects, and increased amounts of calsequestrin-2 and calsequestrin-like protein. The findings suggest that muscle weakness in old age is probably attributable in part to (i) an increased proportion of type I fibres, (ii) a reduction in both maximum specific force and Ca(2+) sensitivity in type II fibres, and also a decreased ability of S-glutathionylation of TnIf to counter the fatiguing effects of metabolites on Ca(2+) sensitivity, and (iii) a reduction in the amount of releasable SR Ca(2+) in both fibre types.
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- C R Lamboley
- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne, Victoria, 8001, Australia
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne, Victoria, 8001, Australia.,La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3086, Australia
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- School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3086, Australia
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, PO Box 14428, Melbourne, Victoria, 8001, Australia
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- School of Molecular Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3086, Australia
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- School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3086, Australia
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Wyckelsma VL, McKenna MJ, Serpiello FR, Lamboley CR, Aughey RJ, Stepto NK, Bishop DJ, Murphy RM. Single-fiber expression and fiber-specific adaptability to short-term intense exercise training of Na+-K+-ATPase α- and β-isoforms in human skeletal muscle. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2015; 118:699-706. [PMID: 25614596 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00419.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase (NKA) plays a key role in muscle excitability, but little is known in human skeletal muscle about fiber-type-specific differences in NKA isoform expression or adaptability. A vastus lateralis muscle biopsy was taken in 17 healthy young adults to contrast NKA isoform protein relative abundance between type I and IIa fibers. We further investigated muscle fiber-type-specific NKA adaptability in eight of these adults following 4-wk repeated-sprint exercise (RSE) training, comprising three sets of 5 × 4-s sprints, 3 days/wk. Single fibers were separated, and myosin heavy chain (I and IIa) and NKA (α1-3 and β1-3) isoform abundance were determined via Western blotting. All six NKA isoforms were expressed in both type I and IIa fibers. No differences between fiber types were found for α1-, α2-, α3-, β1-, or β3-isoform abundances. The NKA β2-isoform was 27% more abundant in type IIa than type I fibers (P < 0.05), with no other fiber-type-specific trends evident. RSE training increased β1 in type IIa fibers (pretraining 0.70 ± 0.25, posttraining 0.84 ± 0.24 arbitrary units, 42%, P < 0.05). No training effects were found for other NKA isoforms. Thus human skeletal muscle expresses all six NKA isoforms and not in a fiber-type-specific manner; this points to their different functional roles in skeletal muscle cells. Detection of elevated NKA β1 after RSE training demonstrates the sensitivity of the single-fiber Western blotting technique for fiber-type-specific intervention effects.
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- V L Wyckelsma
- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and
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- Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- M J McKenna
- St Vincent's University Hospital and University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Ahern T, Khattak A, O'Malley E, Dunlevy C, Kilbane M, Woods C, McKenna MJ, O'Shea D. Association between vitamin D status and physical function in the severely obese. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2014; 99:E1327-31. [PMID: 24735426 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2014-1704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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CONTEXT Mortality is 85% higher in severely obese subjects (body mass index [BMI] > 40 kg/m(2)) than in subjects with a healthy BMI; poor physical function may be contributory. Hypovitaminosis D is common in obese subjects and is associated with physical dysfunction in the elderly. OBJECTIVE We determined the relationship between vitamin D status and physical function in severely obese subjects. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS We conducted a clinic-based, cross-sectional study of severely obese subjects. Participants were stratified into three groups according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) vitamin D status categorization. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES We compared levels of self-reported activity and times taken to walk 500 m and to ascend and descend a 17-cm step 50 times. RESULTS We recruited 252 subjects (age, 43.7 ± 11.2 y; BMI, 50.7 ± 9.7 kg/m(2)); 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) concentrations were less than 30 nmol/L in 109 participants. Participants with a 25OHD > 50 nmol/L, compared to those with a 25OHD < 30 nmol/L, had the highest activity levels (3.1 ± 3.4 h/wk versus 1.5 ± 2.5 h/wk; P = .015) and the shortest 500-m walk times (6.2 ± 1.1 min versus 7.4 ± 1.5 min; P = .003). Serum 25OHD concentrations had a weakly positive association with activity level (r = 0.19; P = .008) and a moderately negative association with 500-m walk time (r = -0.343; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS Vitamin D status had a significant relationship with physical activity and physical function in this cohort of severely obese subjects. Low activity levels are likely to perpetuate the problem of hypovitaminosis D due to less time spent outdoors. Studies exploring the effects of vitamin D supplementation in this population are warranted.
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- T Ahern
- Weight Management Service (T.A., A.K., E.O., C.D., C.W., D.O.), St Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin, Ireland; Obesity Research Group, Education and Research Centre (T.A., A.K., C.W., D.O.), Department of Endocrinology (T.A., A.K., C.W., M.J.M., D.O.), and Metabolism Laboratory (M.K., M.J.M.), St Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Kilbane MT, O'Keane M, Morrin M, Flynn M, McKenna MJ. The double-edged sword of vitamin D in Ireland: the need for public health awareness about too much as well as too little. Ir J Med Sci 2014; 183:485-7. [PMID: 24859288 DOI: 10.1007/s11845-014-1147-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2013] [Accepted: 05/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The Institute of Medicine (IOM) 2011 on dietary references intakes for calcium and vitamin D specified that a 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) level below 30 nmol/L indicated risk of deficiency and that a level above 125 nmol/L indicated risk of harm. METHODS We noted a high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D (23.9 %) and a substantive prevalence of hypervitaminosis D (4.8 %) in a retrospective audit of clinical samples (n = 10,181) obtained over 10 months in 2013. CONCLUSION Hypovitaminosis D should be corrected by low dose supplementation (5 µg or 200 IU daily) with some at-risk groups needing higher doses (10 µg or 400 IU daily) based on 25OHD levels. Whereas, those taking high-dose vitamin D supplements based on mistaken beliefs about recently authorised claims of benefit for muscle function and misleading unauthorised claims need to be alerted to the potential harms of excessive supplementation.
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- M T Kilbane
- Metabolism Laboratory, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland,
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Stress fractures are repetitive strain injuries that occur in normal bones and in abnormal bones. Stress fractures share many features in common but differences depend on the status of the underlying bone. This review article for clinicians addresses aspects about stress fractures with particular respect to fatigue fractures, Looser zones of osteomalacia, atypical Looser zones, atypical femoral fractures associated with bisphosphonate therapy and stress fractures in Paget's disease of bone.
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- M J McKenna
- Department of Endocrinology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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Lamboley CR, Murphy RM, McKenna MJ, Lamb GD. Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ uptake and leak properties, and SERCA isoform expression, in type I and type II fibres of human skeletal muscle. J Physiol 2014; 592:1381-95. [PMID: 24469076 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.269373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The Ca(2+) uptake properties of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) were compared between type I and type II fibres of vastus lateralis muscle of young healthy adults. Individual mechanically skinned muscle fibres were exposed to solutions with the free [Ca(2+)] heavily buffered in the pCa range (-log10[Ca(2+)]) 7.3-6.0 for set times and the amount of net SR Ca(2+) accumulation determined from the force response elicited upon emptying the SR of all Ca(2+). Western blotting was used to determine fibre type and the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA) isoform present in every fibre examined. Type I fibres contained only SERCA2 and displayed half-maximal Ca(2+) uptake rate at ∼pCa 6.8, whereas type II fibres contained only SERCA1 and displayed half-maximal Ca(2+) uptake rate at ∼pCa 6.6. Maximal Ca(2+) uptake rate was ∼0.18 and ∼0.21 mmol Ca(2+) (l fibre)(-1) s(-1) in type I and type II fibres, respectively, in good accord with previously measured SR ATPase activity. Increasing free [Mg(2+)] from 1 to 3 mM had no significant effect on the net Ca(2+) uptake rate at pCa 6.0, indicating that there was little or no calcium-induced calcium release occurring through the Ca(2+) release channels during uptake in either fibre type. Ca(2+) leakage from the SR at pCa 8.5, which is thought to occur at least in part through the SERCA, was ∼2-fold lower in type II fibres than in type I fibres, and was little affected by the presence of ADP, in marked contrast to the larger SR Ca(2+) leak observed in rat muscle fibres under the same conditions. The higher affinity of Ca(2+) uptake in the type I human fibres can account for the higher relative level of SR Ca(2+) loading observed in type I compared to type II fibres, and the SR Ca(2+) leakage characteristics of the human fibres suggest that the SERCAs are regulated differently from those in rat and contribute comparatively less to resting metabolic rate.
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- C R Lamboley
- Department of Zoology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia.
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Harmer AR, Ruell PA, Hunter SK, McKenna MJ, Thom JM, Chisholm DJ, Flack JR. Effects of type 1 diabetes, sprint training and sex on skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ uptake and Ca2+-ATPase activity. J Physiol 2013; 592:523-35. [PMID: 24297852 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.261172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Calcium cycling is integral to muscle performance during the rapid muscle contraction and relaxation of high-intensity exercise. Ca(2+) handling is altered by diabetes mellitus, but has not previously been investigated in human skeletal muscle. We investigated effects of high-intensity exercise and sprint training on skeletal muscle Ca(2+) regulation among men and women with type 1 diabetes (T1D, n = 8, 3F, 5M) and matched non-diabetic controls (CON, n = 8, 3F, 5M). Secondarily, we examined sex differences in Ca(2+) regulation. Subjects undertook 7 weeks of three times-weekly cycle sprint training. Before and after training, performance was measured, and blood and muscle were sampled at rest and after high-intensity exercise. In T1D, higher Ca(2+)-ATPase activity (+28%) and Ca(2+) uptake (+21%) than in CON were evident across both times and days (P < 0.05), but performance was similar. In T1D, resting Ca(2+)-ATPase activity correlated with work performed until exhaustion (r = 0.7, P < 0.01). Ca(2+)-ATPase activity, but not Ca(2+) uptake, was lower (-24%, P < 0.05) among the women across both times and days. Intense exercise did not alter Ca(2+)-ATPase activity in T1D or CON. However, sex differences were evident: Ca(2+)-ATPase was reduced with exercise among men but increased among women across both days (time × sex interaction, P < 0.05). Sprint training reduced Ca(2+)-ATPase (-8%, P < 0.05), but not Ca(2+) uptake, in T1D and CON. In summary, skeletal muscle Ca(2+) resequestration capacity was increased in T1D, but performance was not greater than CON. Sprint training reduced Ca(2+)-ATPase in T1D and CON. Sex differences in Ca(2+)-ATPase activity were evident and may be linked with fibre type proportion differences.
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- A R Harmer
- Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, PO Box 170, Lidcombe, NSW 1825, Australia.
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Lamboley CR, Murphy RM, McKenna MJ, Lamb GD. Endogenous and maximal sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium content and calsequestrin expression in type I and type II human skeletal muscle fibres. J Physiol 2013; 591:6053-68. [PMID: 24127619 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.265900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The relationship between sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) content and calsequestrin (CSQ) isoforms was investigated in human skeletal muscle. A fibre-lysing assay was used to quantify the endogenous Ca(2+) content and maximal Ca(2+) capacity of the SR in skinned segments of type I and type II fibres from vastus lateralis muscles of young healthy adults. Western blotting of individual fibres showed the great majority contained either all fast or all slow isoforms of myosin heavy chain (MHC), troponins C and I, tropomyosin and SERCA, and that the strontium sensitivity of the force response was closely indicative of the troponin C isoform present. The endogenous SR Ca(2+) content was slightly lower in type I compared to type II fibres (0.76 ± 0.03 and 0.85 ± 0.02 mmol Ca(2+) per litre of fibre, respectively), with virtually all of this Ca(2+) evidently being in the SR, as it could be rapidly released with a caffeine-low [Mg(2+)] solution (only 0.08 ± 0.01 and <0.07 mmol l(-1), respectively, remaining). The maximal Ca(2+) content that could be reached with SR Ca(2+) loading was 1.45 ± 0.04 and 1.79 ± 0.03 mmol l(-1) in type I and type II fibres, respectively (P < 0.05). In non-lysed skinned fibres, where the SR remained functional, repeated cycles of caffeine-induced Ca(2+) release and subsequent Ca(2+) reloading similarly indicated that (i) maximal SR Ca(2+) content was lower in type I fibres than in type II fibres (P < 0.05), and (ii) the endogenous Ca(2+) content represented a greater percentage of maximal content in type I fibres compared to type II fibres (∼59% and 41%, respectively, P < 0.05). Type II fibres were found on average to contain ∼3-fold more CSQ1 and ∼5-fold less CSQ2 than type I fibres (P < 0.001). The findings are consistent with the SR Ca(2+) content characteristics in human type II fibres being primarily determined by the CSQ1 abundance, and in type I fibres by the combined amounts of both CSQ1 and CSQ2.
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- C R Lamboley
- G. D. Lamb: Department of Zoology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia.
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Brady JJ, Crowley RK, Murray BF, Kilbane MT, O'Keane M, McKenna MJ. Limited utility of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase isoform 5b in assessing response to therapy in osteoporosis. Ir J Med Sci 2013; 183:47-52. [PMID: 23737138 DOI: 10.1007/s11845-013-0970-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2013] [Accepted: 05/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase isoform 5b (TRACP5b) is a serum bone resorption marker. Our aim was to investigate its utility in monitoring metabolic bone disease. METHODS Serum TRACP5b, C-terminal cross-linking telopeptide of type I collagen, urine N-terminal cross-linking telopeptide of type I collagen and free deoxypyridinoline were measured pre- and post-treatment with a parathyroid hormone analogue [PTH (1-34)] (n = 14) or a bisphosphonate (N-BP) (n = 8). TRACP5b, bone alkaline phosphatase (bone ALP), 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) and parathyroid hormone (PTH) were measured in 100 osteoporosis patients on prolonged bisphosphonate therapy. RESULTS Changes in TRACP5b were smaller in magnitude but mimicked those of other bone resorption markers. Absolute changes in TRACP5b and the other resorption markers correlated significantly (p < 0.001). In patients on long-term bisphosphonates, TRACP5b and bone ALP levels were not suppressed. Vitamin D status was consistent with the level of supplementation. CONCLUSION TRACP5b has limited utility as a single marker of metabolic bone disease treatment.
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- J J Brady
- Metabolism Laboratory, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland,
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Bacon CD, Michonneau F, Henderson AJ, McKenna MJ, Milroy AM, Simmons MP. Geographic and taxonomic disparities in species diversity: dispersal and diversification rates across Wallace's line. Evolution 2013; 67:2058-71. [PMID: 23815659 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2012] [Accepted: 01/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Broad-scale patterns of species diversity have received much attention in the literature, yet the mechanisms behind their formation may not explain species richness disparities across small spatial scales. Few taxa display high species diversity on either side of Wallace's Line and our understanding of the processes causing this biogeographical pattern remains limited, particularly in plant lineages. To understand the evolution of this biogeographical pattern, a time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of Livistoninae palms (Arecaceae) was used to infer the colonization history of the Sahul tectonic plate region and to test for disparities in diversification rates across taxa and across each side of Wallace's Line. Our analyses allowed us to examine how timing, migration history, and shifts in diversification rates have contributed to shape the biogeographical pattern observed in Livistoninae. We inferred that each of the three genera found in Sahul crossed Wallace's Line only once and relatively recently. In addition, at least two of the three dispersing genera underwent an elevation in their diversification rate leading to high species richness on each side of Wallacea. The correspondence of our results with Southeast Asian geologic and climatic history show how palms emerge as excellent models for understanding the historical formation of fine-scale biogeographic patterns in a phylogenetic framework.
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- Christine D Bacon
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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McKenna MJ, Murray B, Lonergan R, Redmond JMT. Immunomodulators for multiple sclerosis may ameliorate spinal bone loss. Ir J Med Sci 2012; 182:29-32. [PMID: 22484845 DOI: 10.1007/s11845-012-0818-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2011] [Accepted: 03/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND The effect of immunomodulator therapy (IMT) for multiple sclerosis (MS) on bone turnover is unknown. AIM The aim of this study was to assess bone turnover in MS patients on IMT. METHODS MS patients (n = 29) on maintenance IMT had repeat measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) after a 4.0 ± 0.4 years; bone turnover markers (BTM) were measured at the time of repeat BMD. RESULTS BMD was unchanged at the spine but declined at the hip. BTMs, both resorption and formation, were reduced compared to normative range that may indicate an anti-resorptive action of IMT. Significant negative correlations were noted between BTMs and changes in BMD at spine but not hip. CONCLUSION These observations suggest that IMT may have a beneficial effect on spinal bone by an antiresorptive action. A prospective study of the effect of IMT on BMD and bone turnover is warranted.
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- M J McKenna
- DXA Unit, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, 4, Ireland.
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Petersen AC, McKenna MJ, Medved I, Murphy KT, Brown MJ, Della Gatta P, Cameron-Smith D. Infusion with the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine attenuates early adaptive responses to exercise in human skeletal muscle. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2012; 204:382-92. [PMID: 21827635 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02344.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIM Production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in skeletal muscle is markedly increased during exercise and may be essential for exercise adaptation. We, therefore, investigated the effects of infusion with the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine (NAC) on exercise-induced activation of signalling pathways and genes involved in exercise adaptation in human skeletal muscle. METHODS Subjects completed two exercise tests, 7 days apart, with saline (control, CON) or NAC infusion before and during exercise. Exercise tests comprised of cycling at 71% VO(2peak) for 45 min, and then 92% VO(2peak) to fatigue, with vastus lateralis biopsies at pre-infusion, after 45-min cycling and at fatigue. RESULTS Analysis was conducted on the mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling pathways, demonstrating that NAC infusion blocked the exercise-induced increase in JNK phosphorylation, but not ERK1/2, or p38 MAPK. Nuclear factor-κB p65 phosphorylation was unaffected by exercise; however, it was reduced in NAC at fatigue by 14% (P < 0.05) compared with pre-infusion. Analysis of exercise and/or ROS-sensitive genes demonstrated that exercise-induced mRNA expression is ROS dependent of MnSOD, but not PGC-1α, interleukin-6, monocyte chemotactic protein-1, or heat-shock protein 70. CONCLUSION These results suggest that inhibition of ROS attenuates some skeletal muscle cell signalling pathways and gene expression involved in adaptations to exercise.
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- A C Petersen
- School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
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Bacon CD, McKenna MJ, Simmons MP, Wagner WL. Evaluating multiple criteria for species delimitation: an empirical example using Hawaiian palms (Arecaceae: Pritchardia). BMC Evol Biol 2012; 12:23. [PMID: 22353848 PMCID: PMC3356231 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2011] [Accepted: 02/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Robust species delimitations are fundamental for conservation, evolutionary, and systematic studies, but they can be difficult to estimate, particularly in rapid and recent radiations. The consensus that species concepts aim to identify evolutionarily distinct lineages is clear, but the criteria used to distinguish evolutionary lineages differ based on the perceived importance of the various characteristics of evolving populations. We examined three different species-delimitation criteria (monophyly, absence of genetic intermediates, and diagnosability) to determine whether currently recognized species of Hawaiian Pritchardia are distinct lineages. RESULTS Data from plastid and nuclear genes, microsatellite loci, and morphological characters resulted in various levels of lineage subdivision that were likely caused by differing evolutionary rates between data sources. Additionally, taxonomic entities may be confounded because of the effects of incomplete lineage sorting and/or gene flow. A coalescent species tree was largely congruent with the simultaneous analysis, consistent with the idea that incomplete lineage sorting did not mislead our results. Furthermore, gene flow among populations of sympatric lineages likely explains the admixture and lack of resolution between those groups. CONCLUSIONS Delimiting Hawaiian Pritchardia species remains difficult but the ability to understand the influence of the evolutionary processes of incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization allow for mechanisms driving species diversity to be inferred. These processes likely extend to speciation in other Hawaiian angiosperm groups and the biota in general and must be explicitly accounted for in species delimitation.
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- Christine D Bacon
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1878, USA
- Smithsonian Tropical Research, Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Republic of Panamá
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1878, USA
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- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1878, USA
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- Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, MRC-166, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA
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Mollica JP, Dutka TL, Merry TL, Lamboley CR, McConell GK, McKenna MJ, Murphy RM, Lamb GD. S-glutathionylation of troponin I (fast) increases contractile apparatus Ca2+ sensitivity in fast-twitch muscle fibres of rats and humans. J Physiol 2012; 590:1443-63. [PMID: 22250211 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2011.224535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Oxidation can decrease or increase the Ca2+ sensitivity of the contractile apparatus in rodent fast-twitch (type II) skeletal muscle fibres, but the reactions and molecular targets involved are unknown. This study examined whether increased Ca2+ sensitivity is due to S-glutathionylation of particular cysteine residues. Skinned muscle fibres were directly activated in heavily buffered Ca2+ solutions to assess contractile apparatus Ca2+ sensitivity. Rat type II fibres were subjected to S-glutathionylation by successive treatments with 2,2′-dithiodipyridine (DTDP) and glutathione (GSH), and displayed a maximal increase in pCa50 (−log10 [Ca2+] at half-maximal force) of ∼0.24 pCa units, with little or no effect on maximum force or Hill coefficient. Partial similar effect was produced by exposure to oxidized gluthathione (GSSG, 10 mM) for 10 min at pH 7.1, and near-maximal effect by GSSG treatment at pH 8.5. None of these treatments significantly altered Ca2+ sensitivity in rat type I fibres. Western blotting showed that both the DTDP–GSH and GSSG–pH 8.5 treatments caused marked S-glutathionylation of the fast troponin I isoform (TnI(f)) present in type II fibres, but not of troponin C (TnC) or myosin light chain 2. Both the increased Ca2+ sensitivity and glutathionylation of TnI(f) were blocked by N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) also increased Ca2+ sensitivity, but only in conditions where it caused S-glutathionylation of TnI(f). In human type II fibres from vastus lateralis muscle, DTDP–GSH treatment also caused similar increased Ca2+ sensitivity and S-glutathionylation of TnI(f). When the slow isoform of TnI in type I fibres of rat was partially substituted (∼30%) with TnI(f), DTDP–GSH treatment caused a significant increase in Ca2+ sensitivity (∼0.08 pCa units). TnIf in type II fibres from toad and chicken muscle lack Cys133 present in mammalian TnIf, and such fibres showed no change in Ca2+ sensitivity with DTDP–GSH nor any S-glutathionylation of TnI(f) (latter examined only in toad). Following 40 min of cycling exercise in human subjects (at ∼60% peak oxygen consumption), TnI(f) in vastus lateralis muscle displayed a marked increase in S-glutathionylation (∼4-fold). These findings show that S-glutathionylation of TnI(f), most probably at Cys133, increases the Ca2+ sensitivity of the contractile apparatus, and that this occurs in exercising humans, with likely beneficial effects on performance.
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- J P Mollica
- Department of Zoology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, 3086, Australia
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Simmons MP, McKenna MJ, Bacon CD, Yakobson K, Cappa JJ, Archer RH, Ford AJ. Phylogeny of Celastraceae tribe Euonymeae inferred from morphological characters and nuclear and plastid genes. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2011; 62:9-20. [PMID: 22001302 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2011] [Revised: 08/10/2011] [Accepted: 08/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The phylogeny of Celastraceae tribe Euonymeae (≈ 230 species in eight genera in both the Old and New Worlds) was inferred using morphological characters together with plastid (matK, trnL-F) and nuclear (ITS and 26S rDNA) genes. Tribe Euonymeae has been defined as those genera of Celastraceae with generally opposite leaves, isomerous carpels, loculicidally dehiscent capsules, and arillate seeds (except Microtropis). Euonymus is the most diverse (129 species) and widely cultivated genus in the tribe. We infer that tribe Euonymeae consists of at least six separate lineages within Celastraceae and that a revised natural classification of the family is needed. Microtropis and Quetzalia are inferred to be distinct sister groups that together are sister to Zinowiewia. The endangered Monimopetalum chinense is an isolated and early derived lineage of Celastraceae that represents an important component of phylogenetic diversity within the family. Hedraianthera is sister to Brassiantha, and we describe a second species (Brassiantha hedraiantheroides A.J. Ford) that represents the first reported occurrence of this genus in Australia. Euonymus globularis, from eastern Australia, is sister to Menepetalum, which is endemic to New Caledonia, and we erect a new genus (Dinghoua R.H. Archer) for it. The Madagascan species of Euonymus are sister to Pleurostylia and recognized as a distinct genus (Astrocassine ined.). Glyptopetalum, Torralbasia, and Xylonymus are all closely related to Euonymus sensu stricto and are questionably distinct from it. Current intrageneric classifications of Euonymus are not completely natural and require revision.
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- Mark P Simmons
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1878, USA.
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Waldron-Lynch F, Murray BF, Brady JJ, McKenna MJ, McGoldrick A, Warrington G, O'Loughlin G, Barragry JM. High bone turnover in Irish professional jockeys. Osteoporos Int 2010; 21:521-5. [PMID: 19271097 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-009-0887-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2008] [Accepted: 02/03/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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SUMMARY Professional jockeys are routinely exposed to high impact trauma and sustain fractures frequently. We found that jockeys restrict their caloric intake in order to maintain regulation weights, and that bone turnover is high. There are significant health and safety implications for the racing industry. INTRODUCTION Professional jockeys routinely sustain fractures from high impact falls. Jockeys maintain a low percentage body fat and a low body mass index (BMI) to achieve low weight targets in order to race. We evaluated dietary habits and bone metabolism in jockeys. METHODS Bone mineral density (BMD) was measured in 27 male jockeys of the 144 jockeys licensed in Ireland. Fourteen (52%) had BMD T score below -1.0, of whom 12 consented to clinical review, nutritional survey, endocrine studies, and bone turnover markers (BTM). BTM were compared to age- and sex-matched controls (n = 16). RESULTS BMI was 20.6 +/- 1.7 kg/m(2); previous fracture frequency was 3.2 +/- 2.0 per rider. All had normal endocrine axes. The jockeys' diet as determined by a 7-day dietary recall was deficient in energy, calcium, and vitamin D intake. Compared with the control group, the jockey group had evidence of increased bone turnover. CONCLUSIONS A substantial proportion of the professional jockeys in Ireland have low-normal BMD, low BMI, and high bone turnover that may result from weight and dietary restrictions. These factors seem to have a deleterious effect on their bone health and predispose the jockeys to a high fracture risk that should be remediated.
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AIMS Many studies suggest that weight gain occurs during treatment of type 2 diabetes, irrespective of the treatment type. The aim of this study was to address the questions (i) whether weight gain is inevitable in patients treated for type 2 diabetes, and (ii) whether treatment escalation is prompted by a rise in glycaemic control [haemoglobin A 1c (HbA 1c)] or weight gain. METHODS A diabetes database was used to identify all patients with type 2 diabetes attending our clinic between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2000. To facilitate further analysis, independent anonymized database resources were established. Data collected included height, weight, gender, HbA(1c), age and diabetes treatment at each visit. RESULTS One thousand and eighty-four patients were included; after 6 months of treatment, patients' average weight had reduced by 1.0 kg (s.d. 4.6) (p < 0.001). Sixty per cent of the patients had either a decrease or no change in weight, while 40% demonstrated a weight gain. Women demonstrated more weight loss than men. After a mean follow-up of 50 months (s.d. 25.7), 439 patients (40%) who received treatment with diet alone, diet followed by metformin or metformin alone demonstrated a maintained weight reduction in addition to improved glycaemic control. A rise in HbA(1c) rather than weight gain prompted treatment change. CONCLUSIONS This study provides evidence that weight gain is not a necessary consequence of the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Women were more successful than men in losing weight, and diet, with or without the addition of metformin, was the treatment type most usually associated with weight loss.
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- A Tuthill
- Department of Investigative Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland.
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McKenna MJ, van der Kamp S, Au-Yeong M, FitzGerald O. Improving standards of DXA. Ir Med J 2008; 101:101-102. [PMID: 18557509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Aughey RJ, Murphy KT, Clark SA, Garnham AP, Snow RJ, Cameron-Smith D, Hawley JA, McKenna MJ. Muscle Na+-K+-ATPase activity and isoform adaptations to intense interval exercise and training in well-trained athletes. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2007; 103:39-47. [PMID: 17446412 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00236.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The Na+-K+-ATPase enzyme is vital in skeletal muscle function. We investigated the effects of acute high-intensity interval exercise, before and following high-intensity training (HIT), on muscle Na+-K+-ATPase maximal activity, content, and isoform mRNA expression and protein abundance. Twelve endurance-trained athletes were tested at baseline, pretrain, and after 3 wk of HIT (posttrain), which comprised seven sessions of 8 × 5-min interval cycling at 80% peak power output. Vastus lateralis muscle was biopsied at rest (baseline) and both at rest and immediately postexercise during the first (pretrain) and seventh (posttrain) training sessions. Muscle was analyzed for Na+-K+-ATPase maximal activity (3- O-MFPase), content ([3H]ouabain binding), isoform mRNA expression (RT-PCR), and protein abundance (Western blotting). All baseline-to-pretrain measures were stable. Pretrain, acute exercise decreased 3- O-MFPase activity [12.7% (SD 5.1), P < 0.05], increased α1, α2, and α3 mRNA expression (1.4-, 2.8-, and 3.4-fold, respectively, P < 0.05) with unchanged β-isoform mRNA or protein abundance of any isoform. In resting muscle, HIT increased ( P < 0.05) 3- O-MFPase activity by 5.5% (SD 2.9), and α3 and β3 mRNA expression by 3.0- and 0.5-fold, respectively, with unchanged Na+-K+-ATPase content or isoform protein abundance. Posttrain, the acute exercise induced decline in 3- O-MFPase activity and increase in α1 and α3 mRNA each persisted ( P < 0.05); the postexercise 3- O-MFPase activity was also higher after HIT ( P < 0.05). Thus HIT augmented Na+-K+-ATPase maximal activity despite unchanged total content and isoform protein abundance. Elevated Na+-K+-ATPase activity postexercise may contribute to reduced fatigue after training. The Na+-K+-ATPase mRNA response to interval exercise of increased α- but not β-mRNA was largely preserved posttrain, suggesting a functional role of α mRNA upregulation.
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- R J Aughey
- Muscle, Ions and Exercise Group, Centre for Ageing, Rehabilitation, Exercise and Sport, School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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Chen W, Meyer NC, McKenna MJ, Pfister M, McBride DJ, Fukushima K, Thys M, Camp GV, Smith RJH. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the COL1A1 regulatory regions are associated with otosclerosis. Clin Genet 2007; 71:406-14. [PMID: 17489845 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2007.00794.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Otosclerosis (MIM 166800) has a prevalence of 0.2-1% among white adults, making it the single most common cause of hearing impairment in this ethnic group. Although measles virus, hormones, human leukocyte antigen alleles and genetic factors have been implicated in the development of otosclerosis, its etiology remains unknown. In a focused effort to identify genetic factors in otosclerosis, we have mapped four disease loci (MIM 166800/605727/608244/608787); however, cloning the disease-causing genes in these intervals has not been successful. Here, we used a case-control study design to investigate the association between collagen type I genes and otosclerosis. We identified susceptibility and protective haplotypes in COL1A1 that are significantly associated with otosclerosis in the Caucasian population. These haplotypes alter reporter gene activity in an osteoblast cell line by affecting binding of transcription factors to cis-acting elements. Our data suggest that increased amounts of collagen alpha1(I) homotrimers are causally related to the development of otosclerosis. Consistent with this hypothesis, mouse mutants homozygous for a Col1a2 frameshift mutation on a C57BL/6J background that deposit only homotrimeric type I collagen have hearing loss.
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- Molecular Otolaryngology Research Laboratories, Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Murphy KT, Aughey RJ, Petersen AC, Clark SA, Goodman C, Hawley JA, Cameron-Smith D, Snow RJ, McKenna MJ. Effects of endurance training status and sex differences on Na+,K+-pump mRNA expression, content and maximal activity in human skeletal muscle. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2007; 189:259-69. [PMID: 17305706 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2006.01635.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIM This study investigated the effects of endurance training status and sex differences on skeletal muscle Na+,K+-pump mRNA expression, content and activity. METHODS Forty-five endurance-trained males (ETM), 11 recreationally active males (RAM), and nine recreationally active females (RAF) underwent a vastus lateralis muscle biopsy. Muscle was analysed for Na+,K+-pump alpha1, alpha2, alpha3, beta1, beta2 and beta3 isoform mRNA expression (real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction), content ([3H]-ouabain-binding site) and maximal activity (3-O-methylfluorescein phosphatase, 3-O-MFPase). RESULTS ETM demonstrated lower alpha1, alpha3, beta2 and beta3 mRNA expression by 74%, 62%, 70% and 82%, respectively, than RAM (P<0.04). In contrast, [3H]-ouabain binding and 3-O-MFPase activity were each higher in ETM than in RAM, by 16% (P<0.03). RAM demonstrated a 230% and 364% higher alpha3 and beta3 mRNA expression than RAF, respectively (P<0.05), but no significant sex differences were found for alpha1, alpha2, beta1 or beta2 mRNA, [3H]-ouabain binding or 3-O-MFPase activity. No significant correlation was found between years of endurance training and either [3H]-ouabain binding or 3-O-MFPase activity. Significant but weak correlations were found between the number of training hours per week and 3-O-MFPase activity (r=0.31, P<0.02) and between incremental exercise VO2(peak)) and both [3H]-ouabain binding (r=0.33, P<0.01) and 3-O-MFPase activity (r=0.28, P<0.03). CONCLUSIONS Isoform-specific differences in Na+,K+-pump mRNA expression were found with both training status and sex differences, but only training status influenced Na+,K+-pump content and maximal activity in human skeletal muscle.
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- K T Murphy
- Muscle, Ions and Exercise Group, School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance, Centre for Ageing, Rehabilitation, Exercise and Sport Science (CARES), Victoria University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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Abuzakouk M, Barnes L, O'Gorman N, O'Grady A, Mohamed B, McKenna MJ, Freaney R, Feighery C. Dermatitis herpetiformis: no evidence of bone disease despite evidence of enteropathy. Dig Dis Sci 2007; 52:659-64. [PMID: 17253133 DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9576-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2006] [Accepted: 08/16/2006] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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The majority of patients with dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) have small intestinal enteropathy that may result in bone loss. The objective of this study was to evaluate bone mineral density (BMD) in DH and to examine whether dietary treatment or degree of the small intestinal lesion correlate with BMD. Twenty-five patients with DH (18 men) were investigated. Detailed dietary assessment and duodenal biopsies were performed on all patients before entry into the study. BMD at lumbar spine and femur was determined by DXA scan. Bone biomarkers, vitamin D, and parathyroid status were assessed. Twenty patients had enteropathy. None of the patients had hypovitaminosis D or secondary hyperparathyroidism. Resorption and formation markers were within normal limits. BMD Z-scores were not significantly different from expected (-0.38; CI, -0.84 to 0.07) and femur (0.46; CI, -0.06 to 0.97). There was no relationship between BMD Z-scores and the severity of the degree of enteropathy. We conclude that enteropathy of differing severity is present in 80% of patients with DH, but this is not associated with bone disease.
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- Department of Immunology, CPL, St. James's Hospital, Dublin, 8 Ireland.
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Aughey RJ, Clark SA, Gore CJ, Townsend NE, Hahn AG, Kinsman TA, Goodman C, Chow CM, Martin DT, Hawley JA, McKenna MJ. Interspersed normoxia during live high, train low interventions reverses an early reduction in muscle Na+, K +ATPase activity in well-trained athletes. Eur J Appl Physiol 2006; 98:299-309. [PMID: 16932967 DOI: 10.1007/s00421-006-0280-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hypoxia and exercise each modulate muscle Na(+), K(+)ATPase activity. We investigated the effects on muscle Na(+), K(+)ATPase activity of only 5 nights of live high, train low hypoxia (LHTL), 20 nights consecutive (LHTLc) versus intermittent LHTL (LHTLi), and acute sprint exercise. Thirty-three athletes were assigned to control (CON, n = 11), 20-nights LHTLc (n = 12) or 20-nights LHTLi (4 x 5-nights LHTL interspersed with 2-nights CON, n = 10) groups. LHTLc and LHTLi slept at a simulated altitude of 2,650 m (F(I)O(2) 0.1627) and lived and trained by day under normoxic conditions; CON lived, trained, and slept in normoxia. A quadriceps muscle biopsy was taken at rest and immediately after standardised sprint exercise, before (Pre) and after 5-nights (d5) and 20-nights (Post) LHTL interventions and analysed for Na(+), K(+)ATPase maximal activity (3-O-MFPase) and content ([(3)H]-ouabain binding). After only 5-nights LHTLc, muscle 3-O-MFPase activity declined by 2% (P < 0.05). In LHTLc, 3-O-MFPase activity remained below Pre after 20 nights. In contrast, in LHTLi, this small initial decrease was reversed after 20 nights, with restoration of 3-O-MFPase activity to Pre-intervention levels. Plasma [K(+)] was unaltered by any LHTL. After acute sprint exercise 3-O-MFPase activity was reduced (12.9 +/- 4.0%, P < 0.05), but [(3)H]-ouabain binding was unchanged. In conclusion, maximal Na(+), K(+)ATPase activity declined after only 5-nights LHTL, but the inclusion of additional interspersed normoxic nights reversed this effect, despite athletes receiving the same amount of hypoxic exposure. There were no effects of consecutive or intermittent nightly LHTL on the acute decrease in Na(+), K(+)ATPase activity with sprint exercise effects or on plasma [K(+)] during exercise.
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- R J Aughey
- Muscle, Ions & Exercise Group, Centre for Aging, Rehabilitation, Exercise and Sport, School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance, Victoria University, MCMC, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Murphy KT, Macdonald WA, McKenna MJ, Clausen T. Ionic mechanisms of excitation-induced regulation of Na+-K+-ATPase mRNA expression in isolated rat EDL muscle. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 290:R1397-406. [PMID: 16357096 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00707.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This study investigated the effects of electrical stimulation on Na+-K+-ATPase isoform mRNA, with the aim to identify factors modulating Na+-K+-ATPase mRNA in isolated rat extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle. Interventions designed to mimic exercise-induced increases in intracellular Na+and Ca2+contents and membrane depolarization were examined. Muscles were mounted on force transducers and stimulated with 60-Hz 10-s pulse trains producing tetanic contractions three times at 10-min intervals. Ouabain (1.0 mM, 120 min), veratridine (0.1 mM, 30 min), and monensin (0.1 mM, 30 min) were used to increase intracellular Na+content. High extracellular K+(13 mM, 60 min) and the Ca2+ionophore A-23187 (0.02 mM, 30 min) were used to induce membrane depolarization and elevated intracellular Ca2+content, respectively. Muscles were analyzed for Na+-K+-ATPase α1–α3and β1–β3mRNA (real-time RT-PCR). Electrical stimulation had no immediate effect on Na+-K+-ATPase mRNA; however at 3 h after stimulation, it increased α1, α2, and α3mRNA by 223, 621, and 892%, respectively ( P = 0.010), without changing β mRNA. Ouabain, veratridine, and monensin increased intracellular Na+content by 769, 724, and 598%, respectively ( P = 0.001) but did not increase mRNA of any isoform. High intracellular K+concentration elevated α1mRNA by 160% ( P = 0.021), whereas A-23187 elevated α3mRNA by 123% ( P = 0.035) but reduced β1mRNA by 76% ( P = 0.001). In conclusion, electrical stimulation induced subunit-specific increases in Na+-K+-ATPase mRNA in isolated rat EDL muscle. Furthermore, Na+-K+-ATPase mRNA appears to be regulated by different stimuli, including cellular changes associated with membrane depolarization and increased intracellular Ca2+content but not increased intracellular Na+content.
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- K T Murphy
- School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance, Centre for Ageing, Rehabilitation and Sport Science, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
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Cawood TJ, McKenna MJ, Gallagher CG, Smith D, Chung WY, Gibney J, O'Shea D. Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes in adults. Ir Med J 2006; 99:83-6. [PMID: 16700261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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We aimed to examine the differences between patients with cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD), and those with normal glucose handling in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) in Ireland. We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients who attend the national referral centre for adult CF. Patients were diagnosed as having CFRD by the American Cystic Fibrosis Foundation criteria for diagnosis of CFRD. Of 259 patients, 150 were classifiable and 81 (54%) were classified as having CFRD. The groups with and without CFRD were not significantly different with regard to age (median 28.4 vs 26.0 years), sex (males 56% vs 55%) or BMI (median 20.9 vs 21.3 kg/m2). The group with CFRD had poorer lung function (mean % predicted FEV1 49.9 vs 66.4, P < 0.001), poorer bone mineral density (T-scores at the lumbar spine -1.95 vs -1.44, P < 0.05 and femur -1.19 vs -0.57, P < 0.01) and a greater proportion of PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA positive sputum cultures (82.5% vs 64.2%, P < 0.05). No patients with CFRD carried the R1 17H mutation whilst 19% of the group without CFRD were heterozygous for this defect (P < 0.001). In conclusion, CFRD was highly prevalent in adults. The presence of CFRD was associated with poorer lung function, poorer bone mineral density and an increased prevalence of PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA in sputum. The R1 17H mutation may be protective for CFRD.
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- T J Cawood
- Department of Endocrinology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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Murphy KT, Petersen AC, Goodman C, Gong X, Leppik JA, Garnham AP, Cameron-Smith D, Snow RJ, McKenna MJ. Prolonged submaximal exercise induces isoform-specific Na+-K+-ATPase mRNA and protein responses in human skeletal muscle. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 2006; 290:R414-24. [PMID: 16179492 DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00172.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This study investigated effects of prolonged submaximal exercise on Na+-K+-ATPase mRNA and protein expression, maximal activity, and content in human skeletal muscle. We also investigated the effects on mRNA expression of the transcription initiator gene, RNA polymerase II (RNAP II), and key genes involved in protein translation, eukaryotic initiation factor-4E (eIF-4E) and 4E-binding protein 1 (4E-BP1). Eleven subjects (6 men, 5 women) cycled at 75.5% (SD 4.8%) peak O2uptake and continued until fatigue. A vastus lateralis muscle biopsy was taken at rest, fatigue, and 3 and 24 h postexercise. We analyzed muscle for Na+-K+-ATPase α1, α2, α3, β1, β2, and β3, as well for RNAP II, eIF-4E, and 4E-BP1 mRNA expression by real-time RT-PCR and Na+-K+-ATPase isoform protein abundance using immunoblotting. Muscle homogenate maximal Na+-K+-ATPase activity was determined by 3 -O-methylfluorescein phosphatase activity and Na+-K+-ATPase content by [3H]ouabain binding. Cycling to fatigue [54.5 (SD 20.6) min] immediately increased α3( P = 0.044) and β2mRNA ( P = 0.042) by 2.2- and 1.9-fold, respectively, whereas α1mRNA was elevated by 2.0-fold at 24 h postexercise ( P = 0.036). A significant time main effect was found for α3protein abundance ( P = 0.046). Exercise transiently depressed maximal Na+-K+-ATPase activity ( P = 0.004), but Na+-K+-ATPase content was unaltered throughout recovery. Exercise immediately increased RNAP II mRNA by 2.6-fold ( P = 0.011) but had no effect on eIF-4E and 4E-BP1 mRNA. Thus a single bout of prolonged submaximal exercise induced isoform-specific Na+-K+-ATPase responses, increasing α1, α3, and β2mRNA but only α3protein expression. Exercise also increased mRNA expression of RNAP II, a gene initiating transcription, but not of eIF-4E and 4E-BP1, key genes initiating protein translation.
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- Muscle, Ions, and Exercise Group, School of Human Movement, Recreation and Performance, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Cawood TJ, McKenna MJ, Gallagher CG, Smith D, Wen YC, Gibney J, Dodd JD, O'Shea D. Oral bisphosphonates improve Bone Mineral Density in adults with cystic fibrosis. Ir Med J 2005; 98:270-3. [PMID: 16300106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
Abstract
In adults with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) we sought to establish the effect of oral bisphosphonate therapy. Bone densitometry measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and clinical patient data, were reviewed retrospectively. Eighty-one patients (median age 27 years) had baseline and follow-up DXA, with an interval of 19.2 +/- 7.1 months. Thirty-six patients were treated with bisphosphonates (alendronate=23 and risedronate=13). Median follow-up Bone Mineral Density in the bisphosphonate group was 3.7% greater at the lumbar spine (95%CI 1.9 to 5.7%, P<0.0005) and 2.4% greater at the femur (95%CI 0.8 to 3.9%, P<0.005) than the group not treated with bisphosphonates. Oral bisphosphonate therapy had a beneficial effect on BMD in adults with CF.
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- T J Cawood
- Department of Endocrinology, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
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