| Project/Area Number |
17500428
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sports science
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| Research Institution | Yamaguchi University |
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Principal Investigator |
SUGIURA Takao Yamaguchi University, Faculty of Education, Professor (80136150)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
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| Keywords | muscle atrophy / restoration / signal ransduction / aging |
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| Research Abstract |
It has been recently reported that Akt/mTOR/p70^<S6K>/S6 and calcineurin (CaN) are both postulated to play important roles in integrating intracellular signaling in skeletal muscle in response to both disuse and increased muscle loading. These experiments investigated the age-related differences in signal transduction of the downstream pathways of both Akt/mTOR/p70^<S6K>/S6 and CaN during a period of recovery following immobilization-induced muscle atrophy. The hindlimb muscles of one leg in young (10 weeks), adult (1 year) and old (2 years) were immobilized in plantar flexion position using a plaster cast for 10 days. At 0,7 and-15 days after the removal of plaster cast, both the atrophic and the contralateral plantaris muscles were removed.
Immobilization resulted in significant muscle atrophy in all experimntal animals. Muscle mass in young animal recovered up to -90% following 10-days of recovery period, but not in adult and old animals. The expressions of phospho-Akt, phospho-mTOR and phospho- p70^<S6K> in atrophied muscles from young rats were significantly higher in all of recovery period compared with control muscles, with the greatest changes seen in recovery day 15, but not in adult and old animals. Muscle levels of phosphorylated 56 in young rats were higher following 7-and 15 days of recovery. A similar tendency was observed in adult rats, but not in old rats. The expressions of phospho-eIF4E and calcineurin in atrophied muscles were unchanged in all of recovery period and experimental groups. Muscle levels of phosphorylated eIF4G in young rats were higher following 7-and 15 days of recovery, but not in adult and old rats. These results show that the activation of Akt/mTOR signaling pathways involved in the protein synthesis during recovery in atrophied plantaris muscle differ with age.
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