D Jurisic-Erzen1, G Starcevic-Klasan2, D Ivanac3, S Peharec4, D Girotto5, R Jerkovic6. 1. Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Kresimirova 42, 51000, Rijeka, Croatia. 2. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Brace Branchetta 20, 51000, Rijeka, Croatia. gordanask@medri.uniri.hr. 3. Department of Traumatology, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Tome Strizica 3, 51000, Rijeka, Croatia. 4. Polyclinic of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rizzijeva 101, 52000, Pula, Croatia. 5. Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Tome Strizica 3, 51000, Rijeka, Croatia. 6. Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Brace Branchetta 20, 51000, Rijeka, Croatia.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Increased oxidative stress and impaired antioxidant defense are important mechanisms in the pathogenesis of diabetic myopathy. Since diabetes mellitus type 1 decreases muscle regeneration capacity the present study was designed to determine the influence of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA), a potent biological antioxidant, on the process of regeneration of diabetic rat skeletal muscles. METHODS: 40 Wistar rats were divided into three groups: control (n = 8), untreated diabetic group (n = 16) and ALA treated diabetic group (n = 16). The regeneration process was provoked in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats in both slow (m.soleus, SOL) and fast (m.extensor digitorum longus, EDL) skeletal muscles by intramuscular injection of myotoxin bupivacaine. At intervals of 10 days and 4 weeks, muscle histochemical and morphometrical analysis (fiber cross areas and fiber type distribution) was performed. RESULTS: Changes induced by diabetes are evident in redistribution of muscle fibers and in significant level of atrophy. After 4 weeks of diabetes, glycolytic muscle fibers are dominant in both slow and fast muscles. Muscle atrophy is present in all fiber types except in type I of slow skeletal muscle. Treatment with ALA reduce changes in the morphological properties caused by diabetes mellitus type 1 in slow and fast rat skeletal muscles during the process of regeneration. CONCLUSION: Treatment with lipoic acid during 4 weeks has shown effects on the redistribution of muscle fibers, and can prevent atrophy in slow and fast diabetic muscle.
PURPOSE: Increased oxidative stress and impaired antioxidant defense are important mechanisms in the pathogenesis of diabetic myopathy. Since diabetes mellitus type 1 decreases muscle regeneration capacity the present study was designed to determine the influence of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA), a potent biological antioxidant, on the process of regeneration of diabeticrat skeletal muscles. METHODS: 40 Wistar rats were divided into three groups: control (n = 8), untreated diabetic group (n = 16) and ALA treated diabetic group (n = 16). The regeneration process was provoked in streptozotocin-induced diabeticrats in both slow (m.soleus, SOL) and fast (m.extensor digitorum longus, EDL) skeletal muscles by intramuscular injection of myotoxin bupivacaine. At intervals of 10 days and 4 weeks, muscle histochemical and morphometrical analysis (fiber cross areas and fiber type distribution) was performed. RESULTS: Changes induced by diabetes are evident in redistribution of muscle fibers and in significant level of atrophy. After 4 weeks of diabetes, glycolytic muscle fibers are dominant in both slow and fast muscles. Muscle atrophy is present in all fiber types except in type I of slow skeletal muscle. Treatment with ALA reduce changes in the morphological properties caused by diabetes mellitus type 1 in slow and fast rat skeletal muscles during the process of regeneration. CONCLUSION: Treatment with lipoic acid during 4 weeks has shown effects on the redistribution of muscle fibers, and can prevent atrophy in slow and fast diabetic muscle.
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Alpha-lipoic acid; Diabetes mellitus type 1; Regeneration; Skeletal muscle
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