scholarly journals Effects of acute oral feeding on protein metabolism and muscle protein synthesis in individuals with cancer

Nutrition ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 67-68 ◽  
pp. 110531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara S. van der Meij ◽  
Lynette M. De Groot ◽  
Nicolaas E.P. Deutz ◽  
Mariëlle P.K.J. Engelen
1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (4) ◽  
pp. E614-E620 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Svanberg ◽  
H. Zachrisson ◽  
C. Ohlsson ◽  
B. M. Iresjo ◽  
K. G. Lundholm

The aim was to evaluate the role of insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) in activation of muscle protein synthesis after oral feeding. Synthesis rate of globular and myofibrillar proteins in muscle tissue was quantified by a flooding dose of radioactive phenylalanine. Muscle tissue expression of IGF-I mRNA was measured. Normal (C57 Bl) and diabetic mice (type I and type II) were subjected to an overnight fast (18 h) with subsequent refeeding procedures for 3 h with either oral chow intake or provision of insulin, IGF-I, glucose, and amino acids. Anti-insulin and anti-IGF-I were provided intraperitoneally before oral refeeding in some experiments. An overnight fast reduced synthesis of both globular (38 +/- 3%) and myofibrillar proteins (54 +/- 3%) in skeletal muscles, which was reversed by oral refeeding. Muscle protein synthesis, after starvation/ refeeding, was proportional and similar to changes in skeletal muscle IGF-I mRNA expression. Diabetic mice responded quantitatively similarly to starvation/refeeding in muscle protein synthesis compared with normal mice (C57 Bl). Both anti-insulin and anti-IGF-I attenuated significantly the stimulation of muscle protein synthesis in response to oral feeding, whereas exogenous provision of either insulin or IGF-I to overnight-starved and freely fed mice did not clearly stimulate protein synthesis in skeletal muscles. Our results support the suggestion that insulin and IGF-I either induce or facilitate the protein synthesis machinery in skeletal muscles rather than exerting a true stimulation of the biosynthetic process during feeding.


1998 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Dardevet ◽  
C Sornet ◽  
I Savary ◽  
E Debras ◽  
P Patureau-Mirand ◽  
...  

This study was performed to assess the effect of glucocorticoids (dexamethasone) on insulin- and IGF-I-regulated muscle protein metabolism in adult and old rats. Muscle atrophy occurred more rapidly in old rats, and recovery of muscle mass was impaired when compared with adults. Muscle wasting resulted mainly from increased protein breakdown in adult rat but from depressed protein synthesis in the aged animal. Glucocorticoid treatment significantly decreased the stimulatory effect of insulin and IGF-I on muscle protein synthesis in adult rats by 25.9 and 58.1% respectively. In old rats, this effect was even greater, being 49.3 and 100% respectively. With regard to muscle proteolysis, glucocorticoids blunted the anti-proteolytic action of insulin and IGF-I in both age groups. During the recovery period, adult rats reversed the glucocorticoid-induced resistance of muscle protein metabolism within 3 days, at which time old rats still exhibited the decrease in insulin-regulated proteolysis. In conclusion, the higher sensitivity of old rat muscle to glucocorticoids may in part result from the greater modification of the effects of insulin and IGF-I on muscle protein metabolism. These responses to glucocorticoids in old rats may be associated with the emergence of muscle atrophy with advancing age.


1989 ◽  
Vol 264 (3) ◽  
pp. 713-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
M N Lopes ◽  
P Black ◽  
A J Ashford ◽  
V M Pain

We have investigated the time course of the changes in protein metabolism in skeletal muscle and liver in mice during the progression of growth of an Ehrlich ascites tumour. The rate of protein synthesis in muscle begins to fall very rapidly, and the decrease is clearly established by the time the tumour first becomes visible at 4 days after implantation of the cells. Liver protein synthesis increases substantially, and protein breakdown in muscle increases, but the onset of both these changes occurs later than the fall in muscle protein synthesis. A decrease in food intake in these animals occurs very rapidly after introduction of the cells. The fractional rate of protein synthesis in the tumour cells falls from 73%/day at 5 days to 26%/day at 12 days after injection, but on an absolute basis the rate of protein synthesis in the tumour at 5 days of growth is very small compared with that in muscle and liver. These results are consistent with the notion that the initial effects on muscle protein synthesis and food intake are brought about by humoral factors rather than as direct consequences of the metabolic demands of the growing tumour.


2004 ◽  
Vol 286 (1) ◽  
pp. E92-E101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin R. Short ◽  
Janet L. Vittone ◽  
Maureen L. Bigelow ◽  
David N. Proctor ◽  
K. Sreekumaran Nair

Aging in humans is associated with loss of lean body mass, but the causes are incompletely defined. Lean tissue mass and function depend on continuous rebuilding of proteins. We tested the hypotheses that whole body and mixed muscle protein metabolism declines with age in men and women and that aerobic exercise training would partly reverse this decline. Seventy-eight healthy, previously untrained men and women aged 19-87 yr were studied before and after 4 mo of bicycle training (up to 45 min at 80% peak heart rate, 3-4 days/wk) or control (flexibility) activity. At the whole body level, protein breakdown (measured as [13C]leucine and [15N]phenylalanine flux), Leu oxidation, and protein synthesis (nonoxidative Leu disposal) declined with age at a rate of 4-5% per decade ( P < 0.001). Fat-free mass was closely correlated with protein turnover and declined 3% per decade ( P < 0.001), but even after covariate adjustment for fat-free mass, the decline in protein turnover with age remained significant. There were no differences between men and women after adjustment for fat-free mass. Mixed muscle protein synthesis also declined with age 3.5% per decade ( P < 0.05). Exercise training improved aerobic capacity 9% overall ( P < 0.01), and mixed muscle protein synthesis increased 22% ( P < 0.05), with no effect of age on the training response for either variable. Fat-free mass, whole body protein turnover, and resting metabolic rate were unchanged by training. We conclude that rates of whole body and muscle protein metabolism decline with age in men and women, thus indicating that there is a progressive decline in the body's remodeling processes with aging. This study also demonstrates that aerobic exercise can enhance muscle protein synthesis irrespective of age.


2013 ◽  
Vol 305 (5) ◽  
pp. E620-E631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Boutry ◽  
Samer W. El-Kadi ◽  
Agus Suryawan ◽  
Scott M. Wheatley ◽  
Renán A. Orellana ◽  
...  

Infants unable to maintain oral feeding can be nourished by orogastric tube. We have shown that orogastric continuous feeding restricts muscle protein synthesis compared with intermittent bolus feeding in neonatal pigs. To determine whether leucine infusion can be used to enhance protein synthesis during continuous feeding, neonatal piglets received the same amount of formula enterally by orogastric tube for 25.25 h continuously (CON) with or without LEU or intermittently by bolus every 4 h (BOL). For the CON+LEU group, leucine pulses were administered parenterally (800 μmol·kg−1·h−1) every 4 h. Insulin and glucose concentrations increased after the BOL meal and were unchanged in groups fed continuously. LEU infusion during CON feeding increased plasma leucine after the leucine pulse and decreased essential amino acids compared with CON feeding. Protein synthesis in longissimus dorsi (LD), gastrocnemius, and soleus muscles, but not liver or heart, were greater in CON+LEU and BOL than in the CON group. BOL feeding increased protein synthesis in the small intestine. Muscle S6K1 and 4E-BP1 phosphorylation and active eIF4E·eIF4G complex formation were higher in CON+LEU and BOL than in CON but AMPKα, eIF2α, and eEF2 phosphorylation were unchanged. LC3-II-to-total LC3 ratio was lower in CON+LEU and BOL than in CON, but there were no differences in atrogin-1 and MuRF-1 abundance and FoxO3 phosphorylation. In conclusion, administration of leucine pulses during continuous orogastric feeding in neonates increases muscle protein synthesis by stimulating translation initiation and may reduce protein degradation via the autophagy-lysosome, but not the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.


1996 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 2034-2038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin D. Tipton ◽  
Arny A. Ferrando ◽  
Bradley D. Williams ◽  
Robert R. Wolfe

Tipton, Kevin D., Arny A. Ferrando, Bradley D. Williams, and Robert R. Wolfe. Muscle protein metabolism in female swimmers after a combination of resistance and endurance exercise. J. Appl. Physiol. 81(5): 2034–2038, 1996.—There is little known about the responses of muscle protein metabolism in women to exercise. Furthermore, the effect of adding resistance training to an endurance training regimen on net protein anabolism has not been established in either men or women. The purpose of this study was to quantify the acute effects of combined swimming and resistance training on protein metabolism in female swimmers by the direct measurement of muscle protein synthesis and whole body protein degradation. Seven collegiate female swimmers were each studied on four separate occasions with a primed constant infusion of ring-[13C6]phenylalanine (Phe) to measure the fractional synthetic rate (FSR) of the posterior deltoid and whole body protein breakdown. Measurements were made over a 5-h period at rest and after each of three randomly ordered workouts: 1) 4,600 m of intense interval swimming (SW); 2) a whole body resistance-training workout with no swimming on that day (RW); and 3) swimming and resistance training combined (SR). Whole body protein breakdown was similar for all treatments (0.75 ± 0.04, 0.69 ± 0.03, 0.69 ± 0.02, and 0.71 ± 0.04 μmol ⋅ min−1 ⋅ kg−1for rest, RW, SW, and SR, respectively). The FSR of the posterior deltoid was significantly greater ( P< 0.05) after SR (0.082 ± 0.015%/h) than at rest (0.045 ± 0.006%/h). There was no significant difference in the FSR after RW (0.048 ± 0.004%/h) or SW (0.064 ± 0.008%/h) from rest or from SR. These data indicate that the combination of swimming and resistance exercise stimulates net muscle protein synthesis above resting levels in female swimmers.


1986 ◽  
Vol 235 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
M M Jepson ◽  
J M Pell ◽  
P C Bates ◽  
D J Millward

The response of muscle and liver protein metabolism to either a single or three successive daily injections of an endotoxin (Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide, serotype 0127 B8; 1 mg/ml, 0.3 mg/100 g body wt.) was studied in vivo in the fed rat, and at 24 and 30 h after endotoxin treatment during fasting. In the fed rats there was a catabolic response in muscle, owing to a 60-100% increase in muscle protein degradation rate, and a 52% fall in the synthesis rate. Although there was a 20% decrease in food intake, the decrease in protein synthesis was to some extent independent of this, since rats treated with endotoxin and fasted also showed a lower rate of muscle protein synthesis, which was in excess of the decrease caused by fasting alone. The mechanism of this decreased protein synthesis involved decreased translational activity, since in both fed and fasted rats there was a decreased rate of synthesis per unit of RNA. This occurred despite the fact that insulin concentrations were either maintained or increased, in the fasted rats, to those observed in fed rats. In the liver total protein mass was increased in the fed rats by 16% at 24 h, and the fractional synthesis rate at that time was increased by 35%. In rats fasted after endotoxin treatment the liver protein mass was not decreased as it was in the control fasted rats, and the fractional synthesis rate was increased by 22%. In both cases the increased synthesis rate reflected an elevated hepatic RNA concentration. The extent of this increase in hepatic protein synthesis was sufficient at one point to compensate for the fall in estimated muscle protein synthesis, so that the sum total in the two tissues was maintained.


2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Rennie

In healthy active older persons, there is no derangement of muscle protein metabolism. However, there is a major deficit in the ability of older muscles to regulate their maintenance during feeding and exercise. The dose–response relationship between myofibrillar protein synthesis and the availability of essential amino acids (EAA) is shifted down and to the right, and giving extra amino acids is unable to overcome this. There is no sex difference in basal or fed muscle protein metabolism in the young, but postmenopausal women have a greater anabolic resistance than older men. Anabolic resistance is also shown by the decreased phosphorylation in the PKB–mTOR–eIF4BP1 pathway in response to increased EAA. The muscle synthetic system is refractory to EAA provision, irrespective of the availability of insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1, and growth hormone. However, insulin is a major regulator of muscle protein breakdown, and there is a blunting of the ability of older muscle to decrease proteolysis in response to low concentrations of insulin, such as those observed after a light breakfast. Providing more EAA seems not to be useful, and modern N-balance data confirm that the dietary protein requirements of older persons are not increased. The sigmoidal dose–response relationship between muscle protein synthesis and resistance exercise intensity is shifted downward and to the right in older men. Decreased physical activity itself, even in young subjects, can produce anabolic resistance of muscle protein synthesis, which cannot be overcome by increasing amino acid availability. Exercise may retune the amino acid and (or) insulin sensitivity of muscle in older people.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayachandran Ravichandran ◽  
Lori R Roust ◽  
Christos Katsanos

Abstract Background: Various pathophysiological conditions alter protein metabolism in skeletal muscle, with obesity being one of them. Obesity impairs regeneration of skeletal muscle, and the same biological mechanism(s) may adversely affect protein metabolism in the muscle of these individuals. Methods: We used C2C12 cell line to evaluate the effects of the anabolic hormone insulin on the expression of protein syncytin-1, which regulates regeneration of muscle, and in the presence of fatty acids whose metabolism is altered in obesity. We used muscle biopsy samples from obese humans with lower muscle protein synthesis and lean controls to evaluate expression of syncytin-1 in obesity and its correlation with protein synthesis in muscle. Results: Insulin upregulated syncytin-1 expression in C2C12 cells and this response was impaired in the presence of the fatty acid palmitate, but not oleate. Expression of the protein 4E-BP1, which signals increase in protein synthesis in muscle, showed response similar to that of syncytin-1. Humans with obesity characterized by lower muscle protein synthesis had higher expression of syncytin-1 in muscle compared to lean humans (P < 0.01). The rate of synthesis of protein in skeletal muscle across humans subjects correlated inversely (r = -0.51; P = 0.03) with the expression of syncytin-1 in muscle. Conclusions: Our studies provide novel insights in the regulation of syncytin-1 in skeletal muscle, and describe potential link between syncytin-1 expression and protein metabolism in skeletal muscle of humans. Altered syncytin-1 expression in muscle may mediate lower protein turnover in muscle of humans with obesity.


2013 ◽  
Vol 305 (12) ◽  
pp. E1483-E1494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flávia A. Graça ◽  
Dawit A. P. Gonçalves ◽  
Wilian A. Silveira ◽  
Eduardo C. Lira ◽  
Valéria Ernestânia Chaves ◽  
...  

The physiological role of epinephrine in the regulation of skeletal muscle protein metabolism under fasting is unknown. We examined the effects of plasma epinephrine depletion, induced by adrenodemedullation (ADMX), on muscle protein metabolism in fed and 2-day-fasted rats. In fed rats, ADMX for 10 days reduced muscle mass, the cross-sectional area of extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle fibers, and the phosphorylation levels of Akt. In addition, ADMX led to a compensatory increase in muscle sympathetic activity, as estimated by the rate of norepinephrine turnover; this increase was accompanied by high rates of muscle protein synthesis. In fasted rats, ADMX exacerbated fasting-induced proteolysis in EDL but did not affect the low rates of protein synthesis. Accordingly, ADMX activated lysosomal proteolysis and further increased the activity of the ubiquitin (Ub)-proteasome system (UPS). Moreover, expression of the atrophy-related Ub ligases atrogin-1 and MuRF1 and the autophagy-related genes LC3b and GABARAPl1 were upregulated in EDL muscles from ADMX-fasted rats compared with sham-fasted rats, and ADMX reduced cAMP levels and increased fasting-induced Akt dephosphorylation. Unlike that observed for EDL muscles, soleus muscle proteolysis and Akt phosphorylation levels were not affected by ADMX. In isolated EDL, epinephrine reduced the basal UPS activity and suppressed overall proteolysis and atrogin-1 and MuRF1 induction following fasting. These data suggest that epinephrine released from the adrenal medulla inhibits fasting-induced protein breakdown in fast-twitch skeletal muscles, and these antiproteolytic effects on the UPS and lysosomal system are apparently mediated through a cAMP-Akt-dependent pathway, which suppresses ubiquitination and autophagy.


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