期刊
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
卷 106, 期 6, 页码 2049-2059出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.91505.2008
关键词
disuse; inflammation; exhaustion; oxidative metabolism
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [OP-158005]
- Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec (FRSQ) [5773, 11992]
Caron AZ, Drouin G, Desrosiers J, Trensz F, Grenier G. A novel hindlimb immobilization procedure for studying skeletal muscle atrophy and recovery in mouse. J Appl Physiol 106: 2049-2059, 2009. First published April 2, 2009; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.91505.2008.-Skeletal muscle atrophy is a serious concern for patients afflicted by limb restriction due to surgery (e. g., arthrodesis), several articular pathologies (e. g., arthralgia), or simply following cast immobilization. To study the molecular events involved in this immobilization-induced debilitating condition, a convenient mouse model for atrophy is lacking. Here we provide a new immobilization procedure exploiting the normal flexion of the mouse hindlimb using a surgical staple to fix the ventral part of the foot to the distal part of the calf. Histological analysis revealed that our approach induced significant skeletal muscle atrophy by reducing the myofiber size of the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle by 36% compared with the untreated contralateral TA within a few days postimmobilization. Two molecular markers for atrophy, atrogin-1/muscle atrophy F-box (atrogin-1/MAFbx) and muscle ring finger 1 (MuRF-1) mRNAs, were significantly upregulated by 1.9- and 5.9-fold, respectively. Interestingly, our model also revealed the presence of an early inflammatory process during atrophy, characterized by the mRNA upregulation of TNF-alpha, IL-1, and IL-6 (1.9-, 2.4-, and 3.4-fold, respectively) simultaneously with the upregulation of the common leukocyte marker CD45 (6.1-fold). Moreover, muscle rapidly recovered on remobilization, an event associated with significantly increased levels of uncoupling protein-3 and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1 alpha mRNA, key components of prooxidative muscle metabolism. This model offers unexpected new insights into the molecular events involved in immobilization atrophy.
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