Treatment of sarcopenia and glucose intolerance through mitochondrial activation by 5-aminolevulinic acid

Recently, sarcopenia has attracted attention as therapeutic target because it constitutes a risk factor for metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. We focused 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) which act as electron carriers in the mitochondrial electron transport system. The mice that received ALA for 8 weeks gained muscle strength and endurance, and exhibited increased muscle mass and mitochondrial amount. Administration of ALA to sarcopenia mice aged 100 weeks and chronic kidney disease (CKD) model mice also increased muscle mass and improved physical performance. Metabolome analysis revealed increased branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) levels in the skeletal muscle of ALA-treated mice. Quantitative PCR analysis revealed decreased expression levels in branched-chain amino acid transaminases (BCATs) that degrade BCAAs and other muscle-degrading factors, and increased levels of mitochondria-activating factors. We also studied in cultured myocytes and obtained compatible results. ALA-treated mice tended to increase body weight, but reduced blood glucose level. These suggested that ALA treatment not only activated muscle mitochondria but also enhanced muscle mass through an increase in BCAAs contents, as to improve muscle strength, endurance and glucose tolerance in mice. In these ways, muscle mitochondrial activation with ALA is suggested to be useful for the treatment of sarcopenia and glucose intolerance.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

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Scientific reports - 7(2017), 1 vom: 21. Juni, Seite 4013

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fujii, Chikako [VerfasserIn]
Miyashita, Kazutoshi [VerfasserIn]
Mitsuishi, Masanori [VerfasserIn]
Sato, Masaaki [VerfasserIn]
Fujii, Kentaro [VerfasserIn]
Inoue, Hiroyuki [VerfasserIn]
Hagiwara, Aika [VerfasserIn]
Endo, Sho [VerfasserIn]
Uto, Asuka [VerfasserIn]
Ryuzaki, Masaki [VerfasserIn]
Nakajima, Motowo [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Tohru [VerfasserIn]
Tamaki, Masanori [VerfasserIn]
Muraki, Ayako [VerfasserIn]
Kawai, Toshihide [VerfasserIn]
Itoh, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

88755TAZ87
Aminolevulinic Acid
Blood Glucose
EC 7.1.1.2
Electron Transport Complex I
Journal Article

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Date Completed 26.12.2018

Date Revised 10.12.2019

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-017-03917-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM273160613