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MUSCLE CELL BIOLOGY AND CELL MOTILITY

Aging influences cellular and molecular responses of apoptosis to skeletal muscle unloading

Laboratory of Muscle Biology and Sarcopenia, Division of Exercise Physiology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia

Submitted 12 May 2004 ; accepted in final form 12 October 2004

The influence of aging on skeletal myocyte apoptosis is not well understood. In this study we examined apoptosis and apoptotic regulatory factor responses to muscle atrophy induced via limb unloading following loading-induced hypertrophy. Muscle hypertrophy was induced by attaching a weight to one wing of young and aged Japanese quails for 14 days. Removing the weight for 7 or 14 days after the initial 14 days of loading induced muscle atrophy. The contralateral wing served as the intra-animal control. A time-released bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) pellet was implanted subcutaneously with wing weighting to identify activated satellite cells/muscle precursor cells throughout the experimental period. Bcl-2 mRNA and protein levels decreased after 7 days of unloading, but they were unchanged after 14 days of unloading in young muscles. Bcl-2 protein level but not mRNA level decreased after 7 days of unloading in muscles of aged birds. Seven days of unloading increased the mRNA level of Bax in muscles from both young and aged birds. Fourteen days of unloading increased mRNA and protein levels of Bcl-2, decreased protein levels of Bax, and decreased nuclear apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF) protein level in muscles of aged birds. BrdU-positive nuclei were found in all unloaded muscles from both age groups, but the number of BrdU-positive nuclei relative to the total nuclei decreased after 14 days of unloading compared with 7 days of unloading. The TdT-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) index was higher after 7 days of unloading in both young and aged muscles and after 14 days of unloading in aged muscles. Immunofluorescent staining revealed that almost all of the TUNEL-positive nuclei were also BrdU immunopositive, suggesting that activated satellite cell nuclei (both fused and nonfused) underwent nuclear apoptosis during unloading. There were significant correlations among levels of Bcl-2, Bax, and AIF and TUNEL index. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that apoptosis regulates, at least in part, unloading-induced muscle atrophy and loss of activated satellite cell nuclei in previously loaded muscles. Moreover, these data suggest that aging influences the apoptotic responses to prolonged unloading following hypertrophy in skeletal myocytes.

satellite cells; Bcl-2 protein family

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