Repeated Bouts of Moderate-Intensity Aerobic Exercise Reduce Airway Reactivity in a Murine Asthma Model
- 1 February 2010
- journal article
- Published by American Thoracic Society in American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
- Vol. 42 (2), 243-249
- https://doi.org/10.1165/rcmb.2009-0038oc
Abstract
We have reported that moderate-intensity aerobic exercise training attenuates airway inflammation in mice sensitized/challenged with ovalbumin (OVA). The current study determined the effects of repeated bouts of aerobic exercise at a moderate intensity on airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in these mice. Mice were sensitized/challenged with OVA or saline and exercised at a moderate intensity 3 times/week for 4 weeks. At protocol completion, mice were analyzed for changes in AHR via mechanical ventilation. Results show that exercise decreased total lung resistance 60% in OVA-treated mice as compared with controls; exercise also decreased airway smooth muscle (ASM) thickness. In contrast, exercise increased circulating epinephrine levels 3-fold in saline- and OVA-treated mice. Because epinephrine binds beta(2)-adrenergic receptors (AR), which facilitate bronchodilatation, the role of beta(2)-AR in exercise-mediated improvements in AHR was examined. Application of the beta(2)-AR antagonist butoxamine HCl blocked the effects of exercise on lung resistance in OVA-treated mice. In parallel, ASM cells were examined for changes in the protein expression of beta(2)-AR and G-protein receptor kinase-2 (GRK-2); GRK-2 promotes beta(2)-AR desensitization. Exercise had no effect on beta(2)-AR expression in ASM cells of OVA-treated mice; however, exercise decreased GRK-2 expression by 50% as compared with controls. Exercise also decreased prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) production 5-fold, but had no effect on E prostanoid-1 (EP1) receptor expression within the lungs of OVA-treated mice; both PGE(2) and the EP1 receptor have been implicated in beta(2)-AR desensitization. Together, these data indicate that moderate-intensity aerobic exercise training attenuates AHR via a mechanism that involves beta(2)-AR.Keywords
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