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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Int J Sports Med 2022; 43(03): 219-229
DOI: 10.1055/a-1539-6702
Physiology & Biochemistry

Excessive Treadmill Training Produces different Cardiac-related MicroRNA Profiles in the Left and Right Ventricles in Mice

Jing Yang
1   The Research Center of Military Exercise Science, The Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, China
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Lin Xu
1   The Research Center of Military Exercise Science, The Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, China
2   Department of Exercise and Heath, Nanjing Sport Institute, Nanjing, China
3   State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Xin Yin
2   Department of Exercise and Heath, Nanjing Sport Institute, Nanjing, China
3   State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Yi Li Zheng
3   State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Hai Peng Zhang
2   Department of Exercise and Heath, Nanjing Sport Institute, Nanjing, China
3   State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Sheng Jia Xu
1   The Research Center of Military Exercise Science, The Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, China
,
Wei Wang
1   The Research Center of Military Exercise Science, The Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, China
,
Sen Wang
4   Department of Geriatric Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Chen Yu Zhang
3   State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for MicroRNA Biology and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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Ji Zheng Ma
1   The Research Center of Military Exercise Science, The Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing, China
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Funding: The authors acknowledge that this work was supported by the Research Special Fund for PLA University of Science and Technology (KYJYZLXY1603–9, 40). The Research Innovation Program for College Graduates of Jiangsu Province (KYCX19_1471). The Research Fund for Postgraduate in Military (KYJXJQJY2001). The Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (2021).
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Abstract

High-volume training followed by inadequate recovery may cause overtraining. This process may undermine the protective effect of regular exercise on the cardiovascular system and may increase the risk of pathological cardiac remodelling. We evaluated whether chronic overtraining changes cardiac-related microRNA profiles in the left and right ventricles. C57BL/6 mice were divided into the control, normal training, and overtrained by running without inclination, uphill running or downhill running groups. After an 8-week treadmill training protocol, the incremental load test and training volume results showed that the model had been successfully established. The qRT-PCR results showed increased cardiac miR-1, miR-133a, miR-133b, miR-206, miR-208b and miR-499 levels in the left ventricle of the downhill running group compared with the left ventricle of the control group. Similarly, compared with the control group, the downhill running induced increased expression of miR-21, miR-17–3p, and miR-29b in the left ventricle. Unlike the changes in the left ventricle, no difference in the expression of the tested miRNAs was observed in the right ventricle. Briefly, our results indicated that overtraining generally affects key miRNAs in the left ventricle (rather than the right ventricle) and that changes in individual miRNAs may cause either adaptive or maladaptive remodelling with overtraining.

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Publication History

Received: 02 July 2020

Accepted: 17 June 2021

Article published online:
20 August 2021

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