scholarly journals Proliferin-1 Ameliorates Cardiotoxin-Related Skeletal Muscle Repair in Mice

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Hiroki Goto ◽  
Aiko Inoue ◽  
Limei Piao ◽  
Lina Hu ◽  
Zhe Huang ◽  
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Background. We recently demonstrated that proliferin-1 (PLF-1) functions as an apoptotic cell-derived growth factor and plays an important role in vascular pathobiology. We therefore investigated its role in muscle regeneration in response to cardiotoxin injury. Methods and Results. To determine the effects of PLF-1 on muscle regeneration, we used a CTX-induced skeletal muscle injury model in 9-week-old male mice that were administered with the recombinant PLF-1 (rPLF-1) or neutralizing PLF-1 antibody. The injured muscles exhibited increased levels of PLF-1 gene expression in a time-dependent manner. On day 14 after injury, rPLF-1 supplementation ameliorated CTX-induced alterations in muscle fiber size, interstitial fibrosis, muscle regeneration capacity, and muscle performance. On day 3 postinjury, rPLF-1 increased the levels of proteins or genes for p-Akt, p-mTOR, p-GSK3α/β, p-Erk1/2, p-p38MAPK, interleukin-10, Pax7, MyoD, and Cyclin B1, and it increased the numbers of CD34+/integrin-α7+ muscle stem cells and proliferating cells in the muscles and/or bone marrow of CTX mice. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay revealed that rPLF-1 suppressed the levels of plasma tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-1β in CTX mice. PLF-1 blocking accelerated CTX-related muscle damage and dysfunction. In C2C12 myoblasts, rPLF-1 increased the levels of proteins for p-Akt, p-mTOR, p-GSK3α/β, p-Erk1/2, and p-p38MAPK as well as cellular functions; and these effects were diminished by the depletion of PLF-1 or silencing of its mannose-6-phosphate receptor. Conclusions. These findings demonstrated that PLF-1 can improve skeletal muscle repair in response to injury, possibly via the modulation of inflammation and proliferation and regeneration, suggesting a novel therapeutic strategy for the management of skeletal muscle diseases.

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. R107-R123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viral Chikani ◽  
Ken K Y Ho

Skeletal muscle is a target tissue of GH. Based on its anabolic properties, it is widely accepted that GH enhances muscle performance in sports and muscle function in the elderly. This paper critically reviews information on the effects of GH on muscle function covering structure, protein metabolism, the role of IGF1 mediation, bioenergetics and performance drawn from molecular, cellular and physiological studies on animals and humans. GH increases muscle strength by enhancing muscle mass without affecting contractile force or fibre composition type. GH stimulates whole-body protein accretion with protein synthesis occurring in muscular and extra-muscular sites. The energy required to power muscle function is derived from a continuum of anaerobic and aerobic sources. Molecular and functional studies provide evidence that GH stimulates the anaerobic and suppresses the aerobic energy system, in turn affecting power-based functional measures in a time-dependent manner. GH exerts complex multi-system effects on skeletal muscle function in part mediated by the IGF system.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Beltrà ◽  
Fabrizio Pin ◽  
Domiziana Costamagna ◽  
Robin Duelen ◽  
Alessandra Renzini ◽  
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Skeletal muscle repair is accomplished by satellite cells (MuSC) in cooperation with interstitial stromal cells (ISCs). So far, the relationship between the function of these cells and the metabolic state of myofibers remains unclear. The present study reports alterations in the proportion of both MuSCs and adipogenesis regulators (Aregs) induced by overexpression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1–alpha (PGC–1α) in the myofibers (MCK–PGC–1α mice). Although PGC-1α–driven increase of MuSCs does not accelerate muscle regeneration, myogenic progenitors isolated from MCK–PGC–1α mice and transplanted into intact and regenerating muscles are more prone to fuse with recipient myofibers than those derived from WT donors. Moreover, both young and aged MCK-PGC-1α animals show reduced perilipin-positive areas when challenged with an adipogenic stimulus, demonstrating low propensity to accumulate adipocytes within the muscle. These results provide new insights on the role played by PGC–1α in promoting myogenesis and hindering adipogenesis in the skeletal muscle.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon J. Gheller ◽  
Jamie E. Blum ◽  
Erica L. Bender ◽  
Mary E. Gheller ◽  
Esther W. Lim ◽  
...  

SummarySkeletal muscle regeneration is reliant on a population of muscle specific adult stem cells (muscle progenitor cells; MPCs). During regeneration, the MPC population undergoes a transient and rapid period of population expansion, which is necessary to repair damaged myofibers and restore muscle homeostasis. Much research has focused on the age-related accumulation of negative regulators of regeneration, while the age-related decline of nutrient and metabolic determinants of the regenerative process needs examination. We hypothesized that older individuals, a population that is at risk for protein malnutrition, have diminished availability of amino acids that are necessary for MPC function. Here, we identified that levels of the non-essential amino acid serine are reduced in the skeletal muscle of healthy, older individuals. Furthermore, using stable-isotope tracing studies, we demonstrate that primary, human MPCs (hMPCs) exhibit a limited capacity for de novo biosynthesis of serine and the closely related amino acid glycine. We identified that serine and glycine are essential for hMPC proliferation and, therefore, population expansion. Serine and glycine were necessary to support synthesis of the intracellular antioxidant glutathione, and restriction of serine and glycine was sensed in an EIF2α-dependent manner resulting in cell cycle arrest in G0/G1. In conclusion, we elucidate that, despite an absolute requirement of serine/glycine for hMPC proliferation, availability of serine in the skeletal muscle microenvironment is limited to the hMPCs of healthy older adults and is a likely underlying mechanism for impaired skeletal muscle regeneration with advancing age. Graphical Abstract


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Papanikolaou ◽  
Dimitrios Draganidis ◽  
Athanasios Chatzinikolaou ◽  
Vassiliki C. Laschou ◽  
Kalliopi Georgakouli ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Muscle satellite cells (SCs) are crucial for muscle regeneration following muscle trauma. Acute skeletal muscle damage results in inflammation and production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) which may be implicated in SCs activation. Protection of these cells from oxidative damage is essential to ensure sufficient muscle regeneration. The aim of this study is to determine whether SCs activity under conditions of aseptic skeletal muscle trauma induced by exercise is redox-dependent. Methods/design Based on their SCs content in their vastus lateralis skeletal muscle, participants will be classified as either high or low respondents. In a randomized, double-blind, crossover, repeated measures design, participants will then receive either Placebo or N-acetylcysteine (alters redox potential in muscle) during a preliminary 7-day loading phase, and for 8 consecutive days following a single bout of intense muscle-damaging exercise. In both trials, blood samples and muscle biopsies will be collected, and muscle performance and soreness will be measured at baseline, pre-exercise, 2- and 8-days post-exercise. Biological samples will be analyzed for redox status and SCs activity. Between trials, a 4-week washout period will be implemented. Discussion This study is designed to investigate the impact of redox status on SCs mobilization and thus skeletal muscle potential for regeneration under conditions of aseptic inflammation induced by exercise. Findings of this trial will provide insight into i) molecular pathways involved in SCs recruitment and muscle healing under conditions of aseptic skeletal muscle trauma present in numerous catabolic conditions and ii) if skeletal muscle’s potential for regeneration depends on its basal SCs content.


2010 ◽  
Vol 298 (3) ◽  
pp. C465-C476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiko Yamada ◽  
Ryuichi Tatsumi ◽  
Keitaro Yamanouchi ◽  
Tohru Hosoyama ◽  
Sei-ichi Shiratsuchi ◽  
...  

Skeletal muscle regeneration and work-induced hypertrophy rely on molecular events responsible for activation and quiescence of resident myogenic stem cells, satellite cells. Recent studies demonstrated that hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) triggers activation and entry into the cell cycle in response to mechanical perturbation, and that subsequent expression of myostatin may signal a return to cell quiescence. However, mechanisms responsible for coordinating expression of myostatin after an appropriate time lag following activation and proliferation are not clear. Here we address the possible role of HGF in quiescence through its concentration-dependent negative-feedback mechanism following satellite cell activation and proliferation. When activated/proliferating satellite cell cultures were treated for 24 h beginning 48-h postplating with 10–500 ng/ml HGF, the percentage of bromodeoxyuridine-incorporating cells decreased down to a baseline level comparable to 24-h control cultures in a HGF dose-dependent manner. The high level HGF treatment did not impair the cell viability and differentiation levels, and cells could be reactivated by lowering HGF concentrations to 2.5 ng/ml, a concentration that has been shown to optimally stimulate activation of satellite cells in culture. Coaddition of antimyostatin neutralizing antibody could prevent deactivation and abolish upregulation of cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) inhibitor p21. Myostatin mRNA expression was upregulated with high concentrations of HGF, as demonstrated by RT-PCR, and enhanced myostatin protein expression and secretion were revealed by Western blots of the cell lysates and conditioned media. These results indicate that HGF could induce satellite cell quiescence by stimulating myostatin expression. The HGF concentration required (over 10–50 ng/ml), however, is much higher than that for activation, which is initiated by rapid release of HGF from its extracellular association. Considering that HGF is produced by satellite cells and spleen and liver cells in response to muscle damage, local concentrations of HGF bathing satellite cells may reach a threshold sufficient to induce myostatin expression. This time lag may delay action of the quiescence signaling program in proliferating satellite cells during initial phases of muscle regeneration followed by induction of quiescence in a subset of cells during later phases.


2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Zimowska ◽  
A. Duchesnay ◽  
P. Dragun ◽  
A. Oberbek ◽  
J. Moraczewski ◽  
...  

When injured by crushing, the repair of the slow-twitch soleus rat muscle, unlike the fast-twitch EDL, is associated with fibrosis. As TGFβ1, whose activity can be controlled by glycosaminoglycans (GAG), plays a major role in fibrosis, we hypothesized that levels of TGFβ1 and GAG contents could account for this differential quality of regeneration. Here we show that the regeneration of the soleus was accompanied by elevated and more sustained TGFβ1 level than in the EDL. Neutralization of TGFβ1 effects by antibodies to TGFβ1 or its receptor TGFβ-R1 improved muscle repair, especially of the soleus muscle, increased in vitro growth of myoblasts, and accelerated their differentiation. These processes were accompanied by alterations of GAG contents. These results indicate that the control of TGFβ1 activity is important to improve regeneration of injured muscle and accelerate myoblast differentiation, in part through changes in GAG composition of muscle cell environment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 5929
Author(s):  
Emine Alarcin ◽  
Ayca Bal-Öztürk ◽  
Hüseyin Avci ◽  
Hamed Ghorbanpoor ◽  
Fatma Dogan Guzel ◽  
...  

Traumatic injuries, tumor resections, and degenerative diseases can damage skeletal muscle and lead to functional impairment and severe disability. Skeletal muscle regeneration is a complex process that depends on various cell types, signaling molecules, architectural cues, and physicochemical properties to be successful. To promote muscle repair and regeneration, various strategies for skeletal muscle tissue engineering have been developed in the last decades. However, there is still a high demand for the development of new methods and materials that promote skeletal muscle repair and functional regeneration to bring approaches closer to therapies in the clinic that structurally and functionally repair muscle. The combination of stem cells, biomaterials, and biomolecules is used to induce skeletal muscle regeneration. In this review, we provide an overview of different cell types used to treat skeletal muscle injury, highlight current strategies in biomaterial-based approaches, the importance of topography for the successful creation of functional striated muscle fibers, and discuss novel methods for muscle regeneration and challenges for their future clinical implementation.


2004 ◽  
Vol 166 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter S. Zammit ◽  
Jon P. Golding ◽  
Yosuke Nagata ◽  
Valérie Hudon ◽  
Terence A. Partridge ◽  
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Growth, repair, and regeneration of adult skeletal muscle depends on the persistence of satellite cells: muscle stem cells resident beneath the basal lamina that surrounds each myofiber. However, how the satellite cell compartment is maintained is unclear. Here, we use cultured myofibers to model muscle regeneration and show that satellite cells adopt divergent fates. Quiescent satellite cells are synchronously activated to coexpress the transcription factors Pax7 and MyoD. Most then proliferate, down-regulate Pax7, and differentiate. In contrast, other proliferating cells maintain Pax7 but lose MyoD and withdraw from immediate differentiation. These cells are typically located in clusters, together with Pax7−ve progeny destined for differentiation. Some of the Pax7+ve/MyoD−ve cells then leave the cell cycle, thus regaining the quiescent satellite cell phenotype. Significantly, noncycling cells contained within a cluster can be stimulated to proliferate again. These observations suggest that satellite cells either differentiate or switch from terminal myogenesis to maintain the satellite cell pool.


2004 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOPHIE B. P. CHARGÉ ◽  
MICHAEL A. RUDNICKI

Chargé, Sophie B. P., and Michael A. Rudnicki. Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Muscle Regeneration. Physiol Rev 84: 209–238, 2004; 10.1152/physrev.00019.2003.—Under normal circumstances, mammalian adult skeletal muscle is a stable tissue with very little turnover of nuclei. However, upon injury, skeletal muscle has the remarkable ability to initiate a rapid and extensive repair process preventing the loss of muscle mass. Skeletal muscle repair is a highly synchronized process involving the activation of various cellular responses. The initial phase of muscle repair is characterized by necrosis of the damaged tissue and activation of an inflammatory response. This phase is rapidly followed by activation of myogenic cells to proliferate, differentiate, and fuse leading to new myofiber formation and reconstitution of a functional contractile apparatus. Activation of adult muscle satellite cells is a key element in this process. Muscle satellite cell activation resembles embryonic myogenesis in several ways including the de novo induction of the myogenic regulatory factors. Signaling factors released during the regenerating process have been identified, but their functions remain to be fully defined. In addition, recent evidence supports the possible contribution of adult stem cells in the muscle regeneration process. In particular, bone marrow-derived and muscle-derived stem cells contribute to new myofiber formation and to the satellite cell pool after injury.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 2044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Dammone ◽  
Sonia Karaz ◽  
Laura Lukjanenko ◽  
Carine Winkler ◽  
Federico Sizzano ◽  
...  

Skeletal muscle is a regenerative tissue which can repair damaged myofibers through the activation of tissue-resident muscle stem cells (MuSCs). Many muscle diseases with impaired regeneration cause excessive adipose tissue accumulation in muscle, alter the myogenic fate of MuSCs, and deregulate the cross-talk between MuSCs and fibro/adipogenic progenitors (FAPs), a bi-potent cell population which supports myogenesis and controls intra-muscular fibrosis and adipocyte formation. In order to better characterize the interaction between adipogenesis and myogenesis, we studied muscle regeneration and MuSC function in whole body Pparg null mice generated by epiblast-specific Cre/lox deletion (PpargΔ/Δ). We demonstrate that deletion of PPARγ completely abolishes ectopic muscle adipogenesis during regeneration and impairs MuSC expansion and myogenesis after injury. Ex vivo assays revealed that perturbed myogenesis in PpargΔ/Δ mice does not primarily result from intrinsic defects of MuSCs or from perturbed myogenic support from FAPs. The immune transition from a pro- to anti-inflammatory MuSC niche during regeneration is perturbed in PpargΔ/Δ mice and suggests that PPARγ signaling in macrophages can interact with ectopic adipogenesis and influence muscle regeneration. Altogether, our study demonstrates that a PPARγ-dependent adipogenic response regulates muscle fat infiltration during regeneration and that PPARγ is required for MuSC function and efficient muscle repair.


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