The effects of endurance exercise, dietary restriction on energy metabolism and bone histomorphometry/densitometry in adult male rats with or without bisphosphonate treatment (#164)
Purposes: The purpose of the current project is to investigate the roles of osteocalcin-insulin reaction loop in modeling adult skeleton under conditions of dietary manipulations and endurance exercise training. Methods:Adult male Sprague Dawley rats (age: 6 month) were body weight matched and assigned to one of the six groups, which were 1) the CON group: fed ad libitum control group; 2) the EE group, animals were subjected to a 9-week treadmill endurance running training regime; 3) the CR group, animals were fed under 40% caloric restriction. In addition, another similar three groups, which were the 4) CON+ZOL, 5) EE+ZOL and 6) CR+ZOL groups were treated with bisphosphonate (zoledronic acid, dose: 100mg/kg b.w.). Bisphosphonate was used as a functional mediator in purpose of down-regulate osteocalcin level. Static histomorphometry, densitometry and serum assays were conducted for the current study. Two-way ANOVA was used for data analyses. Results:After the 9-week experimental periods, the CR, CR+ZOL, EE and EE+ZOL groups revealed significantly lower body weight gain (p<0.05). In zoledronic acid treated groups, various densitometric and histomorphometric measurements demonstrated a higher bone mineral accumulation (p<0.05). In serum markers, exercise and caloric restriction showed main effects for enhancing insulin sensitivity (p<0.05). And, groups treated with bisphosphonate showed higher serum insulin levels in baseline (p<0.05), but not in time points after glucose loading. Zoledronic acid treatment showed main effects in down regulating serum levels of carboxylated (OC) and undercarboxylated (unOC) (p<0.05). In addition, CR groups revealed lower serum OC and unOC. Interestingly, exercise reversed the down-regulation of OC and unOC caused by zoledronic acid (p<0.05). Conclusions:By using bisphosphonate as a functional inhibitor, insulin sensitivity was not blunt, suggesting osteocalcin might not directly involved in glucose regulation. Nevertheless exercise can be an antagonist to counteract bisphosphonate caused quietness on bone metabolism.
ANZBMS-IFMRS-JSBMR 2017*