Increased sensitivity to mitochondrial permeability transition and myonuclear translocation of endonuclease G in atrophied muscle of physically active older humans
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in skeletal muscle atrophy and dysfunction with aging, with strong support for an increased mitochondrial‐mediated apoptosis in sedentary rodent models. Whether this applies to aged human muscle is unknown, nor is it clear whether these changes are caused by sedentary behavior. Thus, we examined mitochondrial function [respiration, reactive oxygen species (ROS) emission, and calcium retention capacity (CRC)] in permeabilized myofibers obtained from vastus lateralis muscle biopsies of healthy physically active young (23.7±2.7 yr; mean± sd ) and older (71.2±4.9 yr) men. Although mitochondrial ROS and maximal respiratory capacity were unaffected, the acceptor control ratio was reduced by 18% with aging, suggesting mild uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation. CRC was reduced by 50% with aging, indicating sensitization of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) to apoptosis. Consistent with the mPTP sensitization, older muscles showed a 3‐fold greater fraction of endonuclease G (a mitochondrial proapoptotic factor)‐positive myonuclei. Aged muscles also had lower mitophagic potential, based on a 43% reduction in Parkin to the voltage‐dependent anion channel (VDAC) protein ratio. Collectively, these results show that mitochondrial‐mediated apoptotic signaling is increased in older human muscle and suggest that accumulation of dysfunctional mitochondria with exaggerated apoptotic sensitivity is due to impaired mitophagy.—Gouspillou, G., Sgarioto, N., Kapchinsky, S., Purves‐Smith, F., Norris, B., Pion, C. H., Barbat‐Artigas, S., Lemieux, R, Taivassalo, T., Morais, J. A., Aubertin‐Leheudre, M., Hepple, R. T. Increased sensitivity to mitochondrial permeability transition and myonuclear translocation of endonuclease G in atrophied muscle of physically active older humans. FASEB J. 28, 28–1621 (1633). www.fasebj.org
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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