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J Appl Physiol 86: 350-358, 1999;
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Vol. 86, Issue 1, 350-358, January 1999

Influence of complete spinal cord injury on skeletal muscle within 6 mo of injury

Michael J. Castro1, David F. Apple Jr.2, Robert S. Staron3, Gerson E. R. Campos3, and Gary A. Dudley1

1 Department of Exercise Science, The University of Georgia, Athens 30602; 2 Shepherd Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30309; and 3 Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701

This study examined the influence of spinal cord injury (SCI) on affected skeletal muscle. The right vastus lateralis muscle was biopsied in 12 patients as soon as they were clinically stable (average 6 wk after SCI), and 11 and 24 wk after injury. Samples were also taken from nine able-bodied controls at two time points 18 wk apart. Surface electrical stimulation (ES) was applied to the left quadriceps femoris muscle to assess fatigue at these same time intervals. Biopsies were analyzed for fiber type percent and cross-sectional area (CSA), fiber type-specific succinic dehydrogenase (SDH) and alpha -glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) activities, and myosin heavy chain percent. Controls showed no change in any variable over time. Patients showed 27-56% atrophy (P = 0.000) of type I, IIa, and IIax+IIx fibers from 6 to 24 wk after injury, resulting in fiber CSA approximately one-third that of controls. Their fiber type specific SDH and GPDH activities increased (P <=  0.001) from 32 to 90% over the 18 wk, thereby approaching or surpassing control values. The relative CSA of type I fibers and percentage of myosin heavy chain type I did not change. There was apparent conversion among type II fiber subtypes; type IIa decreased and type IIax+IIx increased (P <=  0.012). Force loss during ES did not change over time for either group but was greater (P = 0.000) for SCI patients than for controls overall (27 vs. 9%). The results indicate that vastus lateralis muscle shows marked fiber atrophy, no change in the proportion of type I fibers, and a relative independence of metabolic enzyme levels from activation during the first 24 wk after clinically complete SCI. Over this time, quadriceps femoris muscle showed moderately greater force loss during ES in patients than in controls. It is suggested that the predominant response of mixed human skeletal muscle within 6 mo of SCI is loss of contractile protein. Therapeutic interventions could take advantage of this to increase muscle mass.

atrophy; fatigue; biopsy; nervous system trauma


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