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Excessive training induces molecular signs of pathologic cardiac hypertrophy

2018; Wiley; Volume: 233; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/jcp.26799

ISSN

1097-4652

Autores

Alisson L. da Rocha, Giovana Rampazzo Teixeira, Ana P. Pinto, Gustavo P. Morais, Luciana da C. Oliveira, Larissa G. de Vicente, Lilian Eslaine Costa Mendes da Silva, José Rodrigo Pauli, Dennys E. Cintra, Eduardo R. Ropelle, Leandro Pereira de Moura, Rania A. Mekary, Ellen Cristini de Freitas, Adelino Sánchez Ramos da Silva,

Tópico(s)

Adipose Tissue and Metabolism

Resumo

Chronic exercise induces cardiac remodeling that promotes left ventricular hypertrophy and cardiac functional improvement, which are mediated by the mammalian or the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) as well as by the androgen and glucocorticoid receptors (GRs). However, pathological conditions (i.e., chronic heart failure, hypertension, and aortic stenosis, etc.) also induce cardiac hypertrophy, but with detrimental function, high levels of proinflammatory cytokines and myostatin, elevated fibrosis, reduced adenosine monophosphate‐activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation, and fetal gene reactivation. Furthermore, recent studies have evidenced that excessive training induced an inflammatory status in the serum, muscle, hypothalamus, and liver, suggesting a pathological condition that could also be detrimental to cardiac tissue. Here, we verified the effects of three running overtraining (OT) models on the molecular parameters related to physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy. C57BL/6 mice performed three different OT protocols and were evaluated for molecular parameters related to physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy, including immunoblotting, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, histology, and immunohistochemistry analyses. In summary, the three OT protocols induced left ventricle (LV) hypertrophy with signs of cardiac fibrosis and negative morphological adaptations. These maladaptations were accompanied by reductions in AMPKalpha (Thr172) phosphorylation, androgen receptor, and GR expressions, as well as by an increase in interleukin‐6 expression. Specifically, the downhill running–based OT model reduced the content of some proteins related to the mTOR signaling pathway and upregulated the β‐isoform of myosin heavy‐chain gene expression, presenting signs of LV pathological hypertrophy development.

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