Vitamin D supplementation affects the IGF system in men after acute exercise.

Objective: Contradictory data between the Insulin-Like Growth Factor System (IGF) system and exercise may be due to alteration in IGF binding proteins. Vitamin D (D) deficiency has been related to muscle weakness and Insulin Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 (IGFBP3). A Vit.

Endurance exercise training in myostatin null mice.

The growth factor myostatin (Mstn) is a negative regulator of skeletal muscle mass. Mstn(-/-) muscles are hypertrophied, stronger, and more glycolytic than Mstn(+/+) muscles, suggesting that they might not perform endurance exercise as well as Mstn(+/+) mice. Indeed, it has previously been shown that treadmill exercise training reduces triceps weight in Mstn(-/-) mice.

Basal, but not overload-induced, myonuclear addition is attenuated by NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) administration.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of blocking nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity via NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) on myonuclear addition in skeletal muscle under basal and overloaded conditions. Female Sprague-Dawley rats (approx. 220 g) were placed into 1 of the following 4 groups (n = 7-9/group): 7-day skeletal muscle overload (O), sham operation (S), skeletal muscle overload with L-NAME treatment (OLN), and sham operation with L-NAME treatment (SLN).

Oral contraceptive use and exercise-induced muscle damage and recovery.

Endogenous estrogen appears to attenuate muscle damage in animals; however, similar evidence in humans is not as strong. This investigation tested the hypothesis that women taking oral contraceptives, thereby having higher exogenous estrogen levels, would be more susceptible to damage or have an attenuated recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage. Muscle damage in women taking combined estrogen and progesterone oral contraceptives (OC) were compared to noncontraceptive users (NOC) after 50 eccentric muscle contractions of the elbow flexors.