title: Functional β-adrenoceptors are important for early muscle regeneration in mice through effects on myoblast proliferation and differentiation.
abstract: Muscles can be injured in different ways and the trauma and subsequent loss of function and physical capacity can impact significantly on the lives of patients through physical impairments and compromised quality of life. The relative success of muscle repair after injury will largely determine the extent of functional recovery. Unfortunately, regenerative processes are often slow and incomplete, and so developing novel strategies to enhance muscle regeneration is important. While the capacity to enhance muscle repair by stimulating β2-adrenoceptors (β-ARs) using β2-AR agonists (β2-agonists) has been demonstrated previously, the exact role β-ARs play in regulating the regenerative process remains unclear. To investigate β-AR-mediated signaling in muscle regeneration after myotoxic damage, we examined the regenerative capacity of tibialis anterior and extensor digitorum longus muscles from mice lacking either β1-AR (β1-KO) and/or β2-ARs (β2-KO), testing the hypothesis that muscles from mice lacking the β2-AR would exhibit impaired functional regeneration after damage compared with muscles from β1-KO or β1/β2-AR null (β1/β2-KO) KO mice. At 7 days post-injury, regenerating muscles from β1/β2-KO mice produced less force than those of controls but muscles from β1-KO or β2-KO mice did not exhibit any delay in functional restoration. Compared with controls, β1/β2-KO mice exhibited an enhanced inflammatory response to injury, which delayed early muscle regeneration, but an enhanced myoblast proliferation later during regeneration ensured a similar functional recovery (to controls) by 14 days post-injury. This apparent redundancy in the β-AR signaling pathway was unexpected and may have important implications for manipulating β-AR signaling to improve the rate, extent and efficacy of muscle regeneration to enhance functional recovery after injury.
authors.affiliation: Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Jarrod E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Church
authors.affiliation: Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trieu
authors.affiliation: Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Radhika
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sheorey
authors.affiliation: Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Annabel Y-M
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Chee
authors.affiliation: Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Timur
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Naim
authors.affiliation: Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Dale M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Baum
authors.affiliation: Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: James G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Ryall
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Muscle Research & Therapeutics Development, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gregorevic
authors.affiliation: Basic and Clinical Myology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Gordon S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Lynch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D055786:Gene Knockout Techniques; D051379:Mice; D053580:Muscle Strength; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D032446:Myoblasts / Q000166:cytology*; D009929:Organ Size; D018342:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1 / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D018343:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2 / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012038:Regeneration
chemical_list: D018342:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1; D018343:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2