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J Appl Physiol 96: 398-404, 2004. First published September 26, 2003; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00454.2003
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Physiology of Aging

Responsiveness of cell signaling pathways during the failed 15-day regrowth of aged skeletal muscle

R. Tyler Morris,1 Espen E. Spangenburg,2 and Frank W. Booth1,2,3

Departments of 1Medical Pharmacology and Physiology and 2Biomedical Sciences, and 3Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211

Submitted 2 May 2003 ; accepted in final form 17 September 2003

Various cellular signaling pathways, such as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, calcineurin, Janus kinase 2/signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) have been suggested to play an important role in skeletal muscle growth. Old muscle, compared with young muscle, lacks the ability to completely regrow its muscle mass after an atrophy-induced stimulus. it is hypothesized that defects and/or delays in the activation of specific cell signaling pathways of aged soleus muscle limit the potential for growth. To test this, 42 male Fischer 344 x Brown Norway rats, 30 mo old, were hindlimb immobilized for 10 days, and their muscle samples were compared with muscle samples analyzed from 3- to 4-mo-old rats in a previous report (Childs TE, Spangenburg EE, Vyas DR, and Booth FW. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol: 285: C391–C398, 2003). After 10 days, the immobilization was removed and rats were allowed to ambulate for a series of days. Alterations in the activation or deactivation status of specific signaling pathways were determined by comparing the phosphorylation (phos) and total concentration of specific signaling proteins (pan) through Western blotting with the 10-day immobilization group. Various cell signals and their respective time groups of the old rats were shown to be significantly different compared with the 10-day immobilization group. For example, peak increases during recovery from the immobilization were observed at 1) the third recovery day for calcineurin B-pan and 2) the sixth recovery day for glycogen synthase kinase-3{beta}-phos, p70 S6 kinase (p70S6k) -phos and -pan, calcineurin A-pan, STAT3-phos and -pan, p44 MAPK-pan, and p42 MAPK-pan. In contrast, Akt-pan, c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase-phos, and p38 MAPK-phos were observed to decrease from 10-day immobilization values to control levels. Also, Aktphos was unchanged among all groups. In a follow-up experiment in which muscle samples from both the present study and a previous study (Childs TE, Spangenburg EE, Vyas DR, and Booth FW. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol: 285: C391–C398, 2003) were reanalyzed together, the recovery-induced increase in p70S6k-phos from immobilization-atrophy was significantly attenuated in soleus muscles of the old group.

atrophy; regulation; rehabilitation; recovery


Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: F. W. Booth, Univ. of Missouri, Dept. of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, E102 Vet. Med. Bldg., 1600 E. Rollins, Columbia, MO 65211 (E-mail: boothf{at}missouri.edu).




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