title: Regulation of whole body energy homeostasis with growth hormone replacement therapy and endurance exercise.
abstract: We hypothesized that network analysis is useful to expose coordination between whole body and myocellular levels of energy metabolism and can identify entities that underlie skeletal muscle's contribution to growth hormone-stimulated lipid handling and metabolic fitness. We assessed 112 metabolic parameters characterizing metabolic rate and substrate handling in tibialis anterior muscle and vascular compartment at rest, after a meal and exercise with growth hormone replacement therapy (GH-RT) of hypopituitary patients (n = 11). The topology of linear relationships (| r | ≥ 0.7, P ≤ 0.01) and mutual dependencies exposed the organization of metabolic relationships in three entities reflecting basal and exercise-induced metabolic rate, triglyceride handling, and substrate utilization in the pre- and postprandial state, respectively. GH-RT improved aerobic performance (+5%), lean-to-fat mass (+19%), and muscle area of tibialis anterior (+2%) but did not alter its mitochondrial and capillary content. Concomitantly, connectivity was established between myocellular parameters of mitochondrial lipid metabolism and meal-induced triglyceride handling in serum. This was mediated via the recruitment of transcripts of muscle lipid mobilization (LIPE, FABP3, and FABP4) and fatty acid-sensitive transcription factors (PPARA, PPARG) to the metabolic network. The interdependence of gene regulatory elements of muscle lipid metabolism reflected the norm in healthy subjects (n = 12) and distinguished the regulation of the mitochondrial respiration factor COX1 by GH and endurance exercise. Our observations validate the use of network analysis for systems medicine and highlight the notion that an improved stochiometry between muscle and whole body lipid metabolism, rather than alterations of single bottlenecks, contributes to GH-driven elevations in metabolic fitness.
authors: Institute for Biomedical Research into Human Movement and Health, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Oosterhof
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Ith
authors: Roman
authors: R
authors: Trepp
authors: Emanuel
authors: E
authors: Christ
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Flück
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001481:Basal Metabolism; D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis; D002153:Calorimetry, Indirect; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006706:Homeostasis / Q000502:physiology*; D020249:Hormone Replacement Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D019382:Human Growth Hormone / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000628:therapy*; D046228:Microarray Analysis; D008875:Middle Aged; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D010807:Physical Endurance / Q000187:drug effects; D019518:Postprandial Period; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D014280:Triglycerides; D019382:Human Growth Hormone