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1 Nutrition, Metabolism, and Exercise Laboratory, Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA2 Sports Medicine Research Unit, Department of Rheumatology, Copenhagen University Hospital at Bispebjerg, DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark3 The Human Performance Laboratory, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
We combined the interstitial sampling method of microdialysis with the natural tracer qualities (i.e. non-recyclability) of the amino acid 3-methylhistidine (3MH) to uniquely study in vivo degradation of the two most abundant skeletal muscle proteins, myosin and actin. Interstitial 3MH concentration was measured before and for 24 h following a single bout of resistance exercise in eight young (27 ± 2 years) and eight old (75 ± 4 years) men. The exercise bout consisted of four exercises (3 sets of 8 repetitions at 80% one-repetition maximum (1RM) per exercise) emphasizing the quadriceps. Interstitial 3MH concentration was calculated using the internal reference method from microdialysate samples that were obtained from two microdialysis probes placed in the vastus lateralis. Resting interstitial 3MH concentration was 44% higher (P < 0.05) in the old (6.16 ± 0.56 nmol ml-1) as compared with the young (4.28 ± 0.27 nmol ml-1). Interstitial 3MH was not different (P > 0.05) from preexercise at any time point within the 24 h following exercise in both the young and the old. Leg arteriovenous exchange measurements in a separate group of young subjects also showed no increase in 3MH release during the 4 h following a resistance exercise bout compared with a non-exercised control leg (control leg: –28 ± 6, exercise leg: –28 ± 11 nmol min-1). These results suggest that myosin and actin proteolysis are not increased in the first 24 h following a standard bout of resistance exercise, and this response is not altered with ageing. The higher interstitial 3MH concentration in the old suggests an increased proteolysis of the two main contractile proteins in the rested and fasted state, which is consistent with a decrease in muscle mass with ageing. Microdialysis is an appropriate methodology for use in ageing individuals and is compatible with high-intensity resistance exercise.
(Received 21 July 2003;
accepted after revision 3 November 2003;
first published online 7 November 2003)
Corresponding author T. Trappe: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Exercise Laboratory, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham, Slot 806, Little Rock, AR. Email: trappetodda{at}uams.edu
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