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1 Department of Physical Therapy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel 2 Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida, USA
Metalloproteinases (MMPs) are proteolytic enzymes that function in the extracellular matrix to degrade connective tissues. While it is clear that exercise-induced injury in skeletal muscle promotes increased expression of MMPs, the relationship between exercise intensity and expression of MMPs in muscles is unknown. These experiments tested the hypothesis that exercise-induced expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9) is dose-dependent such that high-intensity endurance exercise increases MMP expression whereas low-intensity endurance exercise will not promote MMP expression in skeletal muscles. Female rats (4 months old) completed 2 weeks of treadmill running at either low (18 m min–1; 
50% maximum oxygen consumption rate
) or high intensity (32 m min–1; 70%
; up to 50 min day–1). Non-running, sedentary animals served as controls. Muscle mRNA and protein levels of MMP-2 and MMP-9 were assessed in gastrocnemius, quadriceps and soleus muscles by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting, respectively. Results indicate that exercise did not alter MMP-9 in any of these skeletal muscles. Further, our data reveal that low-intensity exercise did not alter the expression of MMP-2 in any of the muscles investigated. In contrast, high-intensity exercise increased both mRNA and protein levels of MMP-2 in skeletal muscles containing a high percentage of fast type II fibres (i.e. gastronemius and superficial quadriceps). These results support the hypothesis that high-intensity exercise is required to promote the expression of MMP-2 in skeletal muscles and that the influence of exercise on MMP-2 expression is dominant in muscles containing a high percentage of fast fibres.
(Received 8 November 2004;
accepted after revision 12 April 2005; first published online 15 April 2005)
Corresponding author E. Carmeli: Department of Physical Therapy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Email: elie{at}post.tau.ac.il
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