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- Title
Lifelong Physical Exercise Delays Age-Associated Skeletal Muscle Decline.
- Authors
Zampieri, S.; Pietrangelo, L.; Loefler, S.; Fruhmann, H.; Vogelauer, M.; Burggraf, S.; Pond, A.; Grim-Stieger, M.; Cvecka, J.; Sedliak, M.; Tirpáková, V.; Mayr, W.; Sarabon, N.; Rossini, K.; Barberi, L.; De Rossi, M.; Romanello, V.; Boncompagni, S.; Musarò, A.; Sandri, M.
- Abstract
Aging is usually accompanied by a significant reduction in muscle mass and force. To determine the relative contribution of inactivity and aging per se to this decay, we compared muscle function and structure in (a) male participants belonging to a group of well-trained seniors (average of 70 years) who exercised regularly in their previous 30 years and (b) age-matched healthy sedentary seniors with (c) active young men (average of 27 years). The results collected show that relative to their sedentary cohorts, muscle from senior sportsmen have: (a) greater maximal isometric force and function, (b) better preserved fiber morphology and ultrastructure of intracellular organelles involved in Ca2+ handling and ATP production, (c) preserved muscle fibers size resulting from fiber rescue by reinnervation, and (d) lowered expression of genes related to autophagy and reactive oxygen species detoxification. All together, our results indicate that: (a) skeletal muscle of senior sportsmen is actually more similar to that of adults than to that of age-matched sedentaries and (b) signaling pathways controlling muscle mass and metabolism are differently modulated in senior sportsmen to guarantee maintenance of skeletal muscle structure, function, bioenergetic characteristics, and phenotype. Thus, regular physical activity is a good strategy to attenuate age-related general decay of muscle structure and function (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01679977).
- Subjects
AGING; SKELETAL muscle; PHYSICAL training &; conditioning; RYANODINE receptors; SEDENTARY behavior; GERONTOLOGY research
- Publication
Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences & Medical Sciences, 2015, Vol 70, Issue 2, p163
- ISSN
1079-5006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/gerona/glu006