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J Appl Physiol 81: 326-334, 1996;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 81, Issue 1 326-334, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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Skeletal muscle mitochondria from AZT-treated rats have a diminished response to chronic electrical stimulation

D. T. McCurdy 3rd and J. M. Kennedy
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago 60612, USA.

Inhibition of DNA polymerase gamma-function mediated by 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) has been proposed to cause a myopathy by reducing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) replication. Repeated bouts of exercise stimulate an increase in mtDNA replication, mitochondrial content, and mitochondrial volume fraction. Therefore, adaptation of rat skeletal muscle [tibialis anterior (TA)] mitochondria exposed to AZT (1 mg/ml for 35 days) and then to electrical stimulation for 8 h/day (7, 14, 21 days) with continued AZT treatment was examined. Fourteen and 21 days of stimulation increased TA cytochrome oxidase (CO) activity, mtDNA, and CO subunit III and VIc mRNA levels in both groups. The TA CO activity and CO III mRNA increases after 14 and 21 days of stimulation were diminished in AZT-treated rats. TA glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase was reduced in normal rats after chronic stimulation but was unchanged in AZT-treated rats. Chronic stimulation increased the mitochondrial volume fraction by 80 and 40% in normal and AZT-treated rats, respectively. These results indicate diminution, but not complete inhibition, of mitochondrial adaptation by AZT-treated skeletal muscle in response to stimulation.


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