Abstract
The effects of streptozotocin-induced diabetes, physical training and their combination on the activities of prolyl 4-hydroxylase (PH) and galactosylhydroxylysyl glucosyl-transferase (GGT), both marker enzymes of collagen biosynthesis, and on the concentration of hydroxyproline (Hyp) were studied in vastus lateralis, rectus femoris and gastrocnemius muscles in rats. The experimental period was 12-16 weeks. Diabetes had an overall decreasing effect on specific PH activity in all muscles studied, whereas specific GGT activity remained at control level. Total PH and GGT activities decreased in all three muscles in the diabetic animals (P < 0.001). Training caused an increase in PH and GGT activities in gastrocnemius in non-diabetic rats, whereas training in combination with diabetes did not change specific PH or GGT activity. Diabetes increased specific Hyp concentration in vastus lateralis and gastrocnemius in trained diabetic rats (P < 0.05), whereas training decreased Hyp level significantly (P < 0.05) in vastus lateralis in non-diabetic rats, but not in diabetic animals. The results suggest that in streptozotocin-induced diabetes the decrease in collagen synthesis rate exceeds the negative total protein balance in the muscle. Although physical training may have an increasing effect on muscular collagen synthesis in non-diabetic rats, it is unable to prevent the decreasing effect of diabetes on collagen synthesis.
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