骨肌肉功能在接受低剂量雌激素受体对抗剂或雌激素受体对抗剂的雄性小鼠中发生变化
Brent A Momb1, Gillian K Szabo2, Joshua P Mogus2
1Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Endocrinology
|August 26, 2023
概括
急性暴露于雌激素受体激动剂和雄激素受体对抗剂显著损害男性骨肌肉功能. 这些荷尔蒙变化降低了肌肉纤维的特定张力,改变了交叉桥的动力学,需要采取对策来维持身体功能.
科学领域:
- 内分泌学 在内分泌学.
- 骨肌肉生理学 骨肌肉生理学
- 药理学 药理学是指药理学的学科.
背景情况:
- 激素平衡,特别是和雌激素水平,对于维持男性骨肌肉功能至关重要.
- 雌激素受体 (ER) 激动剂和雄激素受体 (AR) 抗剂可以破坏这种平衡,可能会影响肌肉性能.
- 以前的研究往往侧重于生殖器官的变化,忽视了对肌肉收缩性质的直接影响.
研究的目的:
- 调查急性暴露于ER激动剂 (17α-乙乙醇,EE2) 和AR抗体 (胺胺) 对雄性小鼠骨肌纤维收缩功能的影响.
- 为了确定这些荷尔蒙操纵是否会改变单个肌肉纤维的特定张力和交叉桥动力学.
- 评估这些影响独立于传统的标记物,如生殖器官体重.
主要方法:
- 成年雄性小鼠在两周内接受了EE2或胺的治疗.
- 分析了单个肌肉纤维 (soleus和extensor digitorum longus) 的收缩功能.
- 特定张力,肌纤维网格刚度和肌酸氨酸-动氨酸跨桥动力学被测量在不同的肌酸氨酸重链 (MHC) 纤维类型 (I,IIA,IIB).
主要成果:
- 在所有检查的MHC纤维类型 (I,IIA,IIB) 中,Flutamide治疗降低了特定张力.
- EE2处理同样降低了特定张力,但仅在最快的MHC IIB纤维中.
- 降低的张力与较少的髓素-动因交叉桥相关;胺还降低了肌纤维网格的刚性.
- 肌酸氨酸-动氨酸交叉桥的动力学发生了不同的变化:在MHC IIA纤维中,花胺的速度较慢,EE2的速度更快.
结论:
- 对ER激动剂 (EE2) 和AR抗体 (flutamide) 的急性低剂量暴露显著改变了雄性小鼠的骨肌收缩功能.
- 这些荷尔蒙变化会影响肌肉纤维的力量产生和动力学,即使没有影响生殖器官形态.
- 这些发现强调了需要潜在的对策,以在涉及类似激素干扰的条件下保持身体功能.
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