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Journal article
Effects of long-term resistance exercise training on autophagy in rat skeletal muscle of chloroquine-induced sporadic inclusion body myositis
Journal of Exercise Nutrition and Biochemistry, Vol.19, pp.225-234
19
2015
PMCID: PMC4624124
PMID: 26525066
Abstract
[Purpose]We examined whether resistance exercise training restores impaired autophagy functions caused by Chloroquine (CQ)-induced Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (sIBM) in rat skeletal muscle.
[Methods] Male wistar rats were randomly assigned into three groups: Sham (n = 6), CQ (n = 6), and CQ + Exercise (CE, n = 6). To create a rat model of sIBM, rats in the CQ and CE group were intraperitoneally injected with CQ 5 days a week for 16 weeks. Rats in the CE group performed resistance exercise training 3 times a week for 8 weeks in conjunction with CQ starting from week 9 to week 16. During the training period, maximal carrying load, body weight, muscle weight, and relative muscle weight were measured. Autophagy responses were examined by measuring specific markers.
[Results] While maximal carrying capacity for resistance exercise training was dramatically increased in the CE group, no significant changes occurred in the skeletal muscle weight as well as in the relative muscle weight of CE compared to the other groups. CQ treatment caused significant increases in the levels of Beclin-1 and p62, and decreases in the levels of LAMP-2 proteins. Interestingly, no significant differences in the LC3-II/I ratio or the LC3-II protein levels were observed. Although CQ-treatment groups suppressed the levels of the potent autophagy inducer, BNIP3, p62 levels were decreased in only the CE group.
[Conclusion] Our findings demonstrate that sIBM induced by CQ treatment results in muscle degeneration via impaired autophagy and that resistance exercise training improves movable loading activity. Finally, regular exercise training may provide protection against sIBM by enhancing the autophagy flux through p62 protein.
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- Title
- Effects of long-term resistance exercise training on autophagy in rat skeletal muscle of chloroquine-induced sporadic inclusion body myositis
- Publication Details
- Journal of Exercise Nutrition and Biochemistry, Vol.19, pp.225-234
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- The Korean Society for Exercise Nutrition; Changwon, Gyeongnam
- Series
- 19
- Copyright
- 2015 The Korean Society for Exercise Nutrition All papers are freely available online in Genes & Development six months after publication.
- Identifiers
- 99380090325906600
- Academic Unit
- Movement Sciences and Health; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English