Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 156, Number 5, November 1997, 1579-1585

Endurance Training Improves the Resistance of Rat Diaphragm to Exercise-induced Oxidative Stress

SHUJI OH-ISHI, TAKAKO KIZAKI, TOMOMI OOKAWARA, TOMONOBU SAKURAI, TETSUYA IZAWA, NAOKAZU NAGATA, and HIDEKI OHNO

Departments of Hygiene and Internal Medicine III, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama; Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo; and Department of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan

The current study was designed to test the hypothesis that endurance training improves the ability of the diaphragm muscle to resist exercise-induced oxidative stress. Twenty-eight male Wistar rats were assigned to either untrained or trained groups. Trained rats were treadmill-trained for 9 wk. Each group was subdivided into acutely exercised or nonexercised groups. Diaphragm muscle from each rat was analyzed to determine the levels of certain antioxidant enzymes: Mn-superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD), Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (Cu,Zn-SOD), glutathione peroxidase, and catalase. In addition, interleukin-1 and myeloperoxidase levels were determined. Endurance training upregulated all of the antioxidant enzymes. Conversely, acute exercise increased glutathione peroxidase and catalase in untrained rats, while it had no overt effect on any antioxidant enzymes in trained rats. Both Mn-SOD and Cu,Zn-SOD contents and activities were increased with endurance training. However, the mRNA expressions of both forms of SOD did not show any significant change with endurance training. Acute exercise also increased the levels of interleukin-1 and myeloperoxidase in untrained rats but not in trained rats. Moreover, acute exercise significantly increased the ability of neutrophils to produce superoxide, especially in untrained rats. The results from this study demonstrate that endurance training can upregulate certain antioxidant enzyme activities in rat diaphragm muscle, indicating the potential for improvement of the resistance to intracellular reactive oxygen species. The results of this study also suggest that acute exercise may cause oxidative damage in rat diaphragm through the activation of the inflammatory pathway and that endurance training may minimize such an extracellular oxidative stress by acute exercise.

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