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Effects of jump training on bone are preserved after detraining, regardless of estrogen secretion state in rats

¹Laboratory for Exercise Physiology and Biomechanics, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Chukyo University, Toyota; and ²Department of Sports, Kyushu Kyoritsu University, Kitakyushu, Japan

Submitted 4 September 2007 ; accepted in final form 24 January 2008

We investigated whether the effects of jump training on bone are preserved after a detraining period in female normal and estrogen-deficient rats. Forty-four 11-wk-old Wistar rats were divided into the following four groups: sham sedentary (n = 12), sham exercised (n = 11), ovariectomized sedentary (n = 10), and ovariectomized exercised (n = 11). An 8-wk exercise period was introduced in which the rats in the exercised groups were jumped 10 times/day, 5 days/wk. This was followed by 24 wk of detraining. At the end of the exercise period, the jump training significantly increased the bone mineral content of the tibia (P < 0.001), measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. After the detraining period, the bone mineral content (P < 0.01), strength (P < 0.001), and cross-sectional widths (P < 0.001) of the tibia in the exercised groups were still greater than in the sedentary groups, without significant surgery-exercise interactions, although bone stiffness in the fracture test (P < 0.05) and bone area in the center-proximal region, as measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (P < 0.05), showed significant surgery-exercise interactions. These findings suggest that the exercise effect on bone strength is preserved, accompanied by cross-sectional morphological changes, even under estrogen deficiency.

bone strength; high-impact, low-repetition load; ovariectomy

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