Can exercise training counteract doxorubicin-induced oxidative damage of testis proteome?

The use of the chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin (DOX) is limited by its toxicity in several organs such as testes. So, we analyzed the effect of endurance treadmill exercise training (EX) performed before sub-chronic DOX treatment on sperm count and motility, testes markers of oxidative damage and apoptosis. Tissue profiling of proteins more susceptible to oxidation was made to identify the molecular pathways regulated by oxidative modifications, as nitration and carbonylation.

At the moment of occurrence of a fragility hip fracture, men have higher mechanical properties values in comparison with women.

Background: It is well established that males have lower fracture risk in comparison with females, which suggests a higher bone resistance in men. The aim of our study was to find out if in older patients with hip fragility fractures, gender has also an impact on trabecular bone material behaviour, specifically to determine whether trabecular mechanical properties under compressive loading differ between men and women who suffered a fragility hip fracture.

Methods: Femoral epiphyses were consecutively collected during hip replacement surgery due to proximal femur fragility fracture.

Low osteocalcin/collagen type I bone gene expression ratio is associated with hip fragility fractures.

Introduction: Osteocalcin (OC) is the most abundant non-collagenous bone protein and is determinant for bone mineralization. We aimed to compare OC bone expression and serum factors related to its carboxylation in hip fragility fracture and osteoarthritis patients. We also aimed to identify which of these factors were associated with worse mechanical behavior and with the hip fracture event.

Smoking is a predictor of worse trabecular mechanical performance in hip fragility fracture patients.

Clinical risk factors (CRFs) are established predictors of fracture events. However, the influence of individual CRFs on trabecular mechanical fragility is still a subject of debate. In this study, we aimed to assess differences, adjusted for CRFs, between bone macrostructural parameters measured in ex-vivo specimens from hip fragility fracture patients and osteoarthritis patients, and to determine whether individual CRFs could predict trabecular bone mechanical behavior in hip fragility fractures.

Endurance training improves gastrocnemius mitochondrial function despite increased susceptibility to permeability transition.

The aim of the present work was to test the hypothesis that moderate endurance treadmill training ameliorates gastrocnemius mitochondrial bioenergetics and increases the tolerance to the calcium-induced mitochondrial permeability transition pore (MPTP) opening. Twelve adult (6-8 week old) male Wistar rats were randomly divided into two groups (n=6per group): sedentary and trained (14 week of endurance treadmill running, 60min/day). Several end-points for invitro gastrocnemius mitochondrial function including oxygen consumption, transmembrane electric potential and susceptibility to calcium-induced MPTP opening were evaluated.