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Record W4410618071 · doi:10.14814/phy2.70385

Heat therapy preserves myofibre size and <scp>SERCA</scp>‐mediated Ca<sup>2+</sup> uptake in the mouse soleus after tenotomy surgery

2025· article· en· W4410618071 on OpenAlexafffund
Michael Barfoot, Jessica L. Braun, Phillip J. Wallace, Bianca M. Marcella, Ryan W. Baranowski, Rebecca E. K. MacPherson, Stephen S. Cheung, Val A. Fajardo

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysiological Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicExercise and Physiological Responses
Canadian institutionsBrock University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaGovernment of Canada
KeywordsSERCATenotomySoleus muscleMuscle atrophyCalpainSkeletal muscleCalsequestrinInternal medicineSarcomereEndoplasmic reticulumChemistryCell biologyHsp70Heat shock proteinEndocrinologyMyocyteBiologyATPaseBiochemistryMedicineAnatomyRyanodine receptorTendon

Abstract

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Abstract Heat therapy (HT) has been shown to induce physiological adaptations in muscle, including a reduction in the severity of muscle atrophy resulting from unloading. The muscle atrophy caused by unloading can be partially attributed to the dysregulation of Ca2+ in the muscle cell, which can activate calpain‐mediated proteolysis. The sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+‐ATPase (SERCA) is a primary regulator of Ca2+ in muscle, and SERCA dysfunction has been repeatedly demonstrated in various models of muscle unloading. Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) is a heat‐inducible chaperone protein that binds to SERCA and protects against its dysfunction. While previous research has shown HT to upregulate HSP70 in rodent muscle, even in the unloaded state, the effects of HT on SERCA function in rodent skeletal muscle under these conditions remain unknown. Here, we characterized the effects of 4 weeks of HT on soleus muscle size, HSP70 expression, SERCA function, and maximal calpain activity in male C57BL/6J mice subjected to muscle unloading through tenotomy. Four weeks of HT preserved the cross‐sectional area of soleus myofibres following tenotomy, while also upregulating HSP70, maintaining SERCA‐mediated Ca2+ uptake, and reducing maximal calpain activity. Therefore, our research offers new insights into the advantages of HT for muscle health and physiology.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.285
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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