Abstract
Primary myocardial cell cultures obtained from offspring of swim-trianed (T) and sedentary (S) Sprague-Dawley rat mothers (dams) were used to evaluate the influence of exercise training and ethanol on cellular calcium ( 45Ca) content. The pregnant rats swam in water maintained at 37°C 6 days/week during gestation. The dams swam continuously for 30 min on the first day of gestation. The swimming time was increased by 5 min until the rats swam continuously for 1.5 hr. After the cultures had been in incubation for 4 days, the cells were treated with 600, 800, and 1000 mg% ethanol for 30 min and 1 hr. 45Ca content (nmol/mg protein) of the untreated controls and all but one of the ethanol treated groups from the T cultures (1000 mg%) were significantly elevated over the comparable groups from the S cultures for both 30 min and 1 hr of incubation (p≤0.05). The data suggest that exercise during pregnancy induces adaptations in myocardial cell cultures from the offspring such that 45Ca content levels are elevated which may provide protection against ethanol toxicity.
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