期刊
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
卷 535, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2021.111391
关键词
Testosterone; Muscle atrophy; Hypogonadism
资金
- National Institute of Health [R01AG064951, R56AG067754, R21AR077387]
Decreased testicular androgen production leads to muscle mass loss, and a mitochondria targeted antioxidant may help preserve limb muscle mass.
Muscle mass is important for health. Decreased testicular androgen production (hypogonadism) contributes to the loss of muscle mass, with loss of limb muscle being particularly debilitating. Androgen replacement is the only pharmacological treatment, which may not be feasible for everyone. Prior work showed that markers of reactive oxygen species and markers of mitochondrial degradation pathways were higher in the limb muscle following castration. Therefore, we tested whether an antioxidant preserved limb muscle mass in male mice subjected to a castration surgery. Subsets of castrated mice were treated with resveratrol (a general antioxidant) or MitoQ (a mitochondria targeted antioxidant). Relative to the non-castrated control mice, lean mass, limb muscle mass, and grip strength were partially preserved only in castrated mice treated with MitoQ. Independent of treatment, markers of mitochondrial degradation pathways remained elevated in all castrated mice. Therefore, a mitochondrial targeted antioxidant may partially preserve limb muscle mass in response to hypogonadism.
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