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J Appl Physiol 91: 1283-1288, 2001;
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Vol. 91, Issue 3, 1283-1288, September 2001

Exercise training alters the effect of chronic hypoxia on myocardial adrenergic and muscarinic receptor number

Fabrice Favret1, Kyle K. Henderson2, Richard L. Clancy2, Jean-Paul Richalet1, and Norberto C. Gonzalez2

1 Laboratoire "réponses cellulaires et fonctionnelles à l'hypoxie" EA 2363, Association pour la Recherche en Physiologie de l'Environnement, Université Paris XIII, 93017 Bobigny, France; and 2 Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160-7401

Chronic hypoxic exposure results in elevated sympathetic activity leading to downregulation of myocardial alpha 1- and beta -adrenoceptors (alpha 1-AR, beta -AR). On the other hand, it has been shown that sympathetic activity is reduced by exercise training. The objective of this study was to determine whether exercise training could modify the changes in receptor expression associated with acclimatization. Four groups of rats were studied: normoxic sedentary rats (NS), rats living and training in normoxia (NTN), sedentary rats living in hypoxia (HS, inspired PO2 = 110 Torr), and rats living and training in hypoxia (HTH, inspired PO2 = 110 Torr). Training consisted of running in a treadmill at 80% of maximal O2 uptake during 10 wk. Myocardial receptor density was measured by radioactive ligand binding. Right ventricular (RV) hypertrophy occurred in HS but not in HTH. No effect of exercise was detected in RV weight of normoxic rats. Acclimatization to hypoxia (HS vs. NS) resulted in a decrease in both alpha 1- and beta -AR density, whereas muscarinic receptor (M-Ach) expression increased. Hypoxic exercise training (HS vs. HTH) moderated beta -AR downregulation and M-Ach upregulation and prevented the fall in alpha 1-AR density. Normoxic training (NS vs. NTN) did not change beta -AR density. On the other hand, densities of alpha 1-AR in both ventricles as well as RV M-Ach increased in NTN vs. NS. The data show that exercise training in hypoxia 1) prevents RV hypertrophy, 2) suppresses the downregulation of alpha 1-AR in the left ventricle (LV) and RV, and 3) attenuates the changes in both beta -AR and M-Ach receptor density in LV and RV. Exercise training in normoxia increases M-Ach receptor expression in the RV.

alpha 1-adrenoceptor; beta -adrenoceptor; M-ACh receptor; right ventricular hypertrophy; moderate hypoxia


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