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Flodin J, Reitzner SM, Emanuelsson EB, Sundberg CJ, Ackermann P. The effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on the human skeletal muscle transcriptome. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2024; 240:e14129. [PMID: 38459757 DOI: 10.1111/apha.14129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2023] [Revised: 02/10/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
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AIM The influence on acute skeletal muscle transcriptomics of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), as compared to established exercises, is poorly understood. We aimed to investigate the effects on global mRNA-expression in the quadriceps muscle early after a single NMES-session, compared to the effects of voluntary knee extension exercise (EX), and to explore the discomfort level. METHODS Global vastus lateralis muscle gene expression was assessed (RNA-sequencing) in 30 healthy participants, before and 3 h after a 30-min session of NMES and/or EX. The NMES-treatment was applied using textile electrodes integrated in pants and set to 20% of each participant's pre-tested MVC mean (±SD) 200 (±80) Nm. Discomfort was assessed using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS, 0-10). The EX-protocol was performed at 80% of 1-repetition-maximum. RESULTS NMES at 20% of MVC resulted in VAS below 4 and induced 4448 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) with 80%-overlap of the 2571 DEGs of EX. Genes well-known to be up-regulated following exercise, for example, PPARGC1A, ABRA, VEGFA, and GDNF, were also up-regulated by NMES. Gene set enrichment analysis demonstrated many common pathways after EX and NMES. Also, some pathways were exclusive to either EX, for example, muscle tissue proliferation, or to NMES, for example, neurite outgrowth and connective tissue proliferation. CONCLUSION A 30-min NMES-session at 20% of MVC with NMES-pants, which can be applied with an acceptable level of discomfort, induces over 4000 DEGs, of which 80%-overlap with DEGs of EX. NMES can induce exercise-like molecular effects, that potentially can lead to health and performance benefits in individuals who are unable to perform resistance exercise.
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- Johanna Flodin
- Integrative Orthopedic Laboratory, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Trauma, Acute Surgery and Orthopedics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Integrative Orthopedic Laboratory, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Trauma, Acute Surgery and Orthopedics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Emanuelsson EB, Arif M, Reitzner SM, Perez S, Lindholm ME, Mardinoglu A, Daub C, Sundberg CJ, Chapman MA. Remodeling of the human skeletal muscle proteome found after long-term endurance training but not after strength training. iScience 2024; 27:108638. [PMID: 38213622 PMCID: PMC10783619 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
Abstract
Exercise training has tremendous systemic tissue-specific health benefits, but the molecular adaptations to long-term exercise training are not completely understood. We investigated the skeletal muscle proteome of highly endurance-trained, strength-trained, and untrained individuals and performed exercise- and sex-specific analyses. Of the 6,000+ proteins identified, >650 were differentially expressed in endurance-trained individuals compared with controls. Strikingly, 92% of the shared proteins with higher expression in both the male and female endurance groups were known mitochondrial. In contrast to the findings in endurance-trained individuals, minimal differences were found in strength-trained individuals and between females and males. Lastly, a co-expression network and comparative literature analysis revealed key proteins and pathways related to the health benefits of exercise, which were primarily related to differences in mitochondrial proteins. This network is available as an interactive database resource where investigators can correlate clinical data with global gene and protein expression data for hypothesis generation.
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- Eric B. Emanuelsson
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Host–Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Science for Life Laboratory, 171 65 Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden
- Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Integrated Engineering, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110, USA
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Reitzner SM, Emanuelsson EB, Arif M, Kaczkowski B, Kwon AT, Mardinoglu A, Arner E, Chapman MA, Sundberg CJ. Molecular profiling of high-level athlete skeletal muscle after acute endurance or resistance exercise - A systems biology approach. Mol Metab 2024; 79:101857. [PMID: 38141850 PMCID: PMC10805945 DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2023.101857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 12/25/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE Long-term high-level exercise training leads to improvements in physical performance and multi-tissue adaptation following changes in molecular pathways. While skeletal muscle baseline differences between exercise-trained and untrained individuals have been previously investigated, it remains unclear how training history influences human multi-omics responses to acute exercise. METHODS We recruited and extensively characterized 24 individuals categorized as endurance athletes with >15 years of training history, strength athletes or control subjects. Timeseries skeletal muscle biopsies were taken from M. vastus lateralis at three time-points after endurance or resistance exercise was performed and multi-omics molecular analysis performed. RESULTS Our analyses revealed distinct activation differences of molecular processes such as fatty- and amino acid metabolism and transcription factors such as HIF1A and the MYF-family. We show that endurance athletes have an increased abundance of carnitine-derivates while strength athletes increase specific phospholipid metabolites compared to control subjects. Additionally, for the first time, we show the metabolite sorbitol to be substantially increased with acute exercise. On transcriptional level, we show that acute resistance exercise stimulates more gene expression than acute endurance exercise. This follows a specific pattern, with endurance athletes uniquely down-regulating pathways related to mitochondria, translation and ribosomes. Finally, both forms of exercise training specialize in diverging transcriptional directions, differentiating themselves from the transcriptome of the untrained control group. CONCLUSIONS We identify a "transcriptional specialization effect" by transcriptional narrowing and intensification, and molecular specialization effects on metabolomic level Additionally, we performed multi-omics network and cluster analysis, providing a novel resource of skeletal muscle transcriptomic and metabolomic profiling in highly trained and untrained individuals.
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- Stefan M Reitzner
- Department Physiology & Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department Physiology & Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, 171 65 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN Yokohama, 1 Chome-7-22 Suehirocho, Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN Yokohama, 1 Chome-7-22 Suehirocho, Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Science for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Tomtebodavägen 23, 171 65 Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, SE1 1UL, United Kingdom
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- Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, RIKEN Yokohama, 1 Chome-7-22 Suehirocho, Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1 Chome-3-3-2 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan
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- Department Physiology & Pharmacology, Department Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Integrated Engineering, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcalà Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA
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- Department Physiology & Pharmacology, Department Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 171 65 Solna, Sweden; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Alfred Nobels Allé 8, 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden
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Kruse A, Imery I, Corell L, Hjalmarsson E, Fernandez-Gonzalo R, Von Walden F, Reitzner SM. Circulating immune cell populations at rest and in response to acute endurance exercise in young adults with cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol 2023. [PMID: 38111130 DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.15835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
Abstract
AIM The aim of this observational study was to determine the immune status and function in young adults with cerebral palsy (CP) in comparison to typically developing individuals. METHOD Blood samples from 12 individuals with CP (five males, seven females; mean age: 25 years 1 month (5 years 9 months); age range: 19-38 years) and 17 typically developing individuals (eight males, nine females; mean age: 31 years 4 months (6 years 2 months); age range: 20-40 years) were collected before, immediately after, and 1 hour after 45 minutes of frame running or running respectively. Independent t-tests were used to compare heart rate, level of exertion, and baseline cell proportions between groups. Mixed model analysis of variance was utilized to investigate immune cell responses to exercise across groups. RESULTS Baseline levels of gamma delta (TCRγδ+) T-cells were significantly higher (absolute percentage: +2.65, p = 0.028) in the individuals with CP. Several cell populations showed similar significant changes after exercise in both CP and typically developing groups. Cytotoxic (CD8+) T-cells were only significantly elevated immediately after exercise in the typically developing participants (p < 0.01). Individuals with CP exhibited significantly lower heart rates (-11.1%, p < 0.01), despite similar ratings of perceived exertion. INTERPRETATION Elevated baseline TCRγδ+ T-cells may indicate low-grade inflammation in adults with CP. Although most of the cell populations showed typical responses to endurance exercise, the absence of response in CD8+ T-cells in individuals with CP may indicate the need for higher intensity during exercise.
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- Annika Kruse
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Division of Neurology/Pediatric Orthopedics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Institute of Human Movement Science, Sport and Health, University of Graz, Austria
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Division of Neurology/Pediatric Orthopedics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- College of Health and Human Performance, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Division of Neurology/Pediatric Orthopedics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Division of Neurology/Pediatric Orthopedics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Functional Area Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Unit of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Division of Neurology/Pediatric Orthopedics, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Lundquist A, Lázár E, Han NS, Emanuelsson EB, Reitzner SM, Chapman MA, Shirokova V, Alkass K, Druid H, Petri S, Sundberg CJ, Bergmann O. FiNuTyper: Design and validation of an automated deep learning-based platform for simultaneous fiber and nucleus type analysis in human skeletal muscle. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2023; 239:e13982. [PMID: 37097015 DOI: 10.1111/apha.13982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/21/2023] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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AIM While manual quantification is still considered the gold standard for skeletal muscle histological analysis, it is time-consuming and prone to investigator bias. To address this challenge, we assembled an automated image analysis pipeline, FiNuTyper (Fiber and Nucleus Typer). METHODS We integrated recently developed deep learning-based image segmentation methods, optimized for unbiased evaluation of fresh and postmortem human skeletal muscle, and utilized SERCA1 and SERCA2 as type-specific myonucleus and myofiber markers after validating them against the traditional use of MyHC isoforms. RESULTS Parameters including cross-sectional area, myonuclei per fiber, myonuclear domain, central myonuclei per fiber, and grouped myofiber ratio were determined in a fiber-type-specific manner, revealing that a large degree of sex- and muscle-related heterogeneity could be detected using the pipeline. Our platform was also tested on pathological muscle tissue (ALS and IBM) and adapted for the detection of other resident cell types (leucocytes, satellite cells, capillary endothelium). CONCLUSION In summary, we present an automated image analysis tool for the simultaneous quantification of myofiber and myonuclear types, to characterize the composition and structure of healthy and diseased human skeletal muscle.
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- August Lundquist
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department for Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Integrated Engineering, University of San Diego, San Diego, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neurology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Learning, Informatics, Management, and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany
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Emanuelsson EB, Berry DB, Reitzner SM, Arif M, Mardinoglu A, Gustafsson T, Ward SR, Sundberg CJ, Chapman MA. MRI characterization of skeletal muscle size and fatty infiltration in long-term trained and untrained individuals. Physiol Rep 2022; 10:e15398. [PMID: 35854646 PMCID: PMC9296904 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.15398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023] Open
Abstract
This study investigated body composition measures in highly trained and untrained individuals using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Additionally, correlations between these measures and skeletal muscle gene expression were performed. Thirty-six individuals were included: endurance-trained males (ME, n = 8) and females (FE, n = 7), strength-trained males (MS, n = 7), and untrained control males (MC, n = 8) and females (FC, n = 6). MRI scans were performed, and resting M. vastus lateralis (VL) biopsies were subjected to RNA sequencing. Liver fat fraction, visceral adipose tissue volume (VAT), total body fat, and total lean tissue were measured from MRI data. Additionally, cross-sectional area (CSA) and fat signal fraction (FSF) were calculated from Mm. pectoralis, M. erector spinae and M. multifidus combined, Mm. quadriceps, and Mm. triceps surae (TS). Liver fat fraction, VAT, and total body fat relative to body weight were lower in ME and FE compared with corresponding controls. MS had a larger CSA across all four muscle groups and lower FSF in all muscles apart from TS compared with MC. ME had a lower FSF across all muscle groups and a larger CSA in all muscles except TS than MC. FE athletes showed a higher CSA in Mm. pectoralis and Mm. quadriceps and a lower CSA in TS than FC with no CSA differences found in the back muscles investigated. Surprisingly, the only difference in FSF between FE and FC was found in Mm. pectoralis. Lastly, correlations between VL gene expression and VL CSA as well as FSF showed that genes positively correlated with CSA revealed an enrichment of the oxidative phosphorylation and thermogenesis pathways, while the genes positively correlated with FSF showed significant enrichment of the spliceosome pathway. Although limited differences were found with training in females, our study suggests that both regular endurance and resistance training are useful in maintaining muscle mass, reducing adipose tissue deposits, and reducing muscle fat content in males.
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- Eric B. Emanuelsson
- Department of Physiology and PharmacologyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Department of NanoengineeringUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
- Department of Orthopaedic SurgeryUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
- Department of RadiologyUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Physiology and PharmacologyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
- Department for Women's and Children's HealthKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Science for Life LaboratoryKTH – Royal Institute of TechnologyStockholmSweden
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- Science for Life LaboratoryKTH – Royal Institute of TechnologyStockholmSweden
- Centre for Host–Microbiome InteractionsFaculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King's College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of Laboratory MedicineKarolinska InstitutetHuddingeSweden
- Unit of Clinical PhysiologyKarolinska University HospitalStockholmSweden
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- Department of Orthopaedic SurgeryUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
- Department of RadiologyUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
- Department of BioengineeringUniversity of California San DiegoLa JollaCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Physiology and PharmacologyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
- Department of Laboratory MedicineKarolinska InstitutetHuddingeSweden
- Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and EthicsKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Department of Physiology and PharmacologyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
- Department of Integrated EngineeringUniversity of San DiegoSan DiegoCaliforniaUSA
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Chapman MA, Arif M, Emanuelsson EB, Reitzner SM, Lindholm ME, Mardinoglu A, Sundberg CJ. Skeletal Muscle Transcriptomic Comparison between Long-Term Trained and Untrained Men and Women. Cell Rep 2021; 31:107808. [PMID: 32579934 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [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: 01/17/2020] [Revised: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
To better understand the health benefits of lifelong exercise in humans, we conduct global skeletal muscle transcriptomic analyses of long-term endurance- (9 men, 9 women) and strength-trained (7 men) humans compared with age-matched untrained controls (7 men, 8 women). Transcriptomic analysis, Gene Ontology, and genome-scale metabolic modeling demonstrate changes in pathways related to the prevention of metabolic diseases, particularly with endurance training. Our data also show prominent sex differences between controls and that these differences are reduced with endurance training. Additionally, we compare our data with studies examining muscle gene expression before and after a months-long training period in individuals with metabolic diseases. This analysis reveals that training shifts gene expression in individuals with impaired metabolism to become more similar to our endurance-trained group. Overall, our data provide an extensive examination of the accumulated transcriptional changes that occur with decades-long training and identify important "exercise-responsive" genes that could attenuate metabolic disease.
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- Mark A Chapman
- Department of Integrated Engineering, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110, USA; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Science for Life Laboratory, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 171 65 Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 171 65 Solna, Sweden; Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 141 52 Huddinge, Sweden
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Reitzner SM, Norrbom J, Sundberg CJ, Gidlund E. Expression of striated activator of rho-signaling in human skeletal muscle following acute exercise and long-term training. Physiol Rep 2018; 6:e13624. [PMID: 29504288 PMCID: PMC5835521 DOI: 10.14814/phy2.13624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
The striated activator of rho-signaling (STARS) protein acts as a link between external stimuli and exercise adaptation such as muscle hypertrophy. However, the acute and long-term adaptational response of STARS is still unclear. This study aimed at investigating the acute and long-term endurance training response on the mRNA and protein expression of STARS and its related upstream and downstream factors in human skeletal muscle. mRNA and protein levels of STARS and related factors were assessed in skeletal muscle of healthy young men and women following an acute bout of endurance exercise (n = 15) or 12 weeks of one-legged training (n = 23). Muscle biopsies were obtained before (acute and long-term), at 30 min, 2, and 6 h following acute exercise, and at 24 h following both acute exercise and long-term training. Following acute exercise, STARS mRNA was significantly elevated 3.9-fold at 30 min returning back to baseline 24 h after exercise. STARS protein levels were numerically but nonsignificantly increased 7.2-fold at 24 h. No changes in STARS or ERRα mRNA or STARS protein expression were seen following long-term training. PGC-1α mRNA increased 1.7-fold following long-term training. MRTF-A mRNA was increased both following acute exercise and long-term training, in contrast to SRF mRNA and protein which did not change. STARS mRNA is acutely upregulated with exercise, but there is no cumulative effect to long-term training as seen in PGC-1α mRNA expression. Exercise intensity might play a role in manifestation of protein expression, suggesting a more complex regulation of STARS.
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- Stefan M. Reitzner
- Department of Physiology and PharmacologyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Department of Physiology and PharmacologyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Department of Physiology and PharmacologyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
- Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and EthicsKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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- Department of Physiology and PharmacologyKarolinska InstitutetStockholmSweden
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