Abstract
The results of the present study indicate that the density of the beta-adrenergic receptors in the skeletal muscle does not decline with age, despite declines in oxidative capacity both in the skeletal muscle and whole body oxygen consumption. When young rats and old rats of equal body weight trained daily at the same duration and speed for 6 months on the treadmill, skeletal muscle of young and old rats reached the same aerobic capacity. The young demonstrated a significant rise in Bmax of the beta receptors, while the old rats did not change their density of receptors. When both young and old rats had the contractile activity of their skeletal muscle raised to the same level through chronic tonic electrical stimulation, the aerobic-capacity and beta receptor density rose to the same levels in the skeletal muscle. Thus, the contraction-dependent pathway in the senescent muscle appears to function normally given a maximal chronic stimulus via electrical stimulation. These data indicate that the relationship between oxidative capacity, beta-adrenergic receptor properties, exercise training, and aging does not appear to be readily explicable by a single unifying mechanism, but probably resides in the interaction of age with a dif...Continue Reading
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