Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its receptors in heart tissue following short-term swimming training
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Der Ausdruck des vaskulären Endothel-Wachstumsfaktors und seiner Rezeptoren im Herzgewebe nach kurzem Schwimmtraining |
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Autor: | Wagatsuma, Akira; Tamaki, Hiroyuki; Ogita, Futoshi |
Erschienen in: | International journal of sport and health science |
Veröffentlicht: | 3 (2005), S. 91-99, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 1880-4012, 0915-3942, 1348-1509 |
DOI: | 10.5432/ijshs.3.91 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU200904002190 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract
The goal of this study was to investigate the expression of angiogenesis-associated genes in heart tissue in response to short-term exercise. Twenty-six male mice were divided randomly into sedentary and swimming-trained groups. Mice swam without a load for 50 min/day. Swimming training was carried out in six 50-min training sessions over a 9-day period. The mRNA for angiogenesis-related factors, including hypoxia inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), fms-like tyrosine kinase (Flt-1), and kinase insert domain-containing receptor/fetal liver kinase-1 (KDR/Flk-1), was analyzed using real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Also, semi-quantitative RT-PCR was carried out to further determine which of the VEGF isoforms changed in heart tissue. Swimming training significantly increased HIF-1α (1.5-fold), VEGF (2.2-fold), Flt-1 (1.9-fold), and KDR/Flk-1 (2.4-fold) mRNA levels. Also, VEGF188 and VEGF164 mRNA levels were elevated but their relative abundance was the same as in sedentary mice. These results suggest that short-term swimming training stimulates not only the expression of VEGF mRNA, which may be due to increases in VEGF188 and VEGF164 mRNAs, but also Flt-1 and KDR/Flk-1 mRNAs in the heart. Verf.-Referat