Abstract
How various types of muscle contraction during exercises affect bone formation remains unclear. This study aimed to determine how exercises with different muscle contraction types affect bone morphology. In total, 20 mice were used and divided into four groups: Control, Level, Down Slow, and Down. Different types of muscle contraction were induced by changing the running angle of the treadmill. After the intervention, micro-computed tomography (Micro-CT), tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase/alkaline phosphatase (ALP) staining, and immunohistochemical staining were used to analyze the humerus head, tendon-to-bone attachment, and humerus diaphyseal region. Micro-CT found that the volume ratio of the humeral head, the volume of the tendon-to-bone attachment region, and the area of the humeral diaphyseal region increased in the Down group. However, no difference was detected in bone morphology between the Level and Down Slow groups. In addition, histology showed activation of ALP in the subarticular subchondral region in the Down Slow and Down groups and the fibrocartilage region in the tendon-to-bone attachment. Moreover, Osterix increased predominantly in the Down Slow and Down groups.Overall bone morphological changes in the humerus occur only when overuse is added to EC-dominant activity. Furthermore, different type of muscle contractile activities might promote bone formation in a site-specific manner.
Highlights
Bones play a very important role in the musculoskeletal system because they function as a lever for muscle contraction and promotion of joint movement
Osterix increased predominantly in the Down Slow and Down groups.Overall bone morphological changes in the humerus occur only when overuse is added to Eccentric Contraction (EC)-dominant activity
Bone morphological results were classified by the humerus head region and the humerus diaphyseal region
Summary
Bones play a very important role in the musculoskeletal system because they function as a lever for muscle contraction and promotion of joint movement. Exercises induce a beneficial increase in bone density during tissue maturation in growing children [1] and contribute to protection from age-related bone diseases, such as osteopenia and osteoporosis [2]. Sports activities promote bone formation, and the dominant hand humerus of a tennis player may have a larger bone circumference than the non-dominant humerus [3]. Bones cause hyperplasia when excessive mechanical stress is applied. Many in vivo animal models of various movement types, such as running, jumping, free-fall landing, and swimming, have been developed to identify the modes of movement that cause optimal bone formation [4,5,6,7]. Studies using treadmills found that bone formation was promoted in the group that performed flatland running [8,9]
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