Effects of bedrest and hypoxia on human skeletal muscle miRNA expression
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ABSTRACT: The present study concerns the effects of 21 days of sustained recumbence (bedrest) and hypoxia, alone and in combination, on skeletal muscle microRNA expression. 14 male subjects participated in 3 experimental campaigns in a counterbalanced fashion: normoxic bedrest (NBR), hypoxic bedrest (HBR) and hypoxic ambulatory confinement (HAMB), both hypoxic conditions with FO2 = 0.141 and PIO2 = 90 ± 0.4 mmHg, equivalent to an altitude of ≈ 4000 m). Each intervention (bedrest or ambulatory confinement) lasted 21 days, and the interventions were separated by a 4-month wash-out/recovery period. The order in which each subject undertook the interventions is denoted 'Intervention_order' Throughout both bedrest interventions, each subject remained in a horizontal position at all times. He was allowed one pillow for the head and to occasionally lean on an elbow while eating or being transferred to a gurney. Muscular exercise was prohibited. During the HAMB confinement, each subject was allowed to move freely within the hypoxic area. To mimic a normal level of physical activity subjects performed 30 minutes of low-to-moderate-intensity exercise twice daily. Muscle samples from Vastus lateralis.
ORGANISM(S): synthetic construct Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE74469 | GEO | 2016/05/04
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA300517
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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