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Electrocardiograms of mice selectively bred for high levels of voluntary exercise: Effects of short-term exercise training and the mini-muscle phenotype.
Physiology & Behavior 2018 November 31
Changes in cardiac function that occur with exercise training have been studied in detail, but those accompanying evolved increases in the duration or intensity of physical activity are poorly understood. To address this gap, we studied electrocardiograms (ECGs) of mice from an artificial selection experiment in which four replicate lines are bred for high voluntary wheel running (HR) while four non-selected lines are maintained as controls (C). ECGs were recorded using an ECGenie (Mouse Specifics, Inc.) both before and after six days of wheel access (as used in the standard protocol to select breeders). We hypothesized that HR mice would show innate differences in ECG characteristics and that the response to training would be greater in HR mice relative to C mice because the former run more. After wheel access, in statistical analyses controlling for variation in body mass, all mice had lower heart rates, and mice from HR lines had longer PR intervals than C lines. Also after wheel access, male mice had increased heart rate variability, whereas females had decreased heart rate variability. With body mass as a covariate, six days of wheel access significantly increased ventricle mass in both HR and C males. Within the HR lines, a subset of mice known as mini-muscle individuals have a 50% reduction in hindlimb muscle mass and generally larger internal organs, including the heart ventricles. As compared with normal-muscled individuals, mini-muscle individuals had a longer QRS complex, both before and after wheel access. Some studies in other species of mammals have shown correlations between athletic performance and QRS duration. Correlations between wheel running and either heart rate or QRS duration (before wheel running) among the eight individual lines of the HR selection experiment or among 17 inbred mouse strains taken from the literature were not statistically significant. However, total revolutions and average speed were negatively correlated with PR duration among lines of the HR selection experiment for males, and duration of running was negatively correlated with PR duration among 17 inbred strains for females. We conclude that HR mice have enhanced trainability of cardiac function as compared with C mice (as indicated by their longer PR duration after wheel access), and that the mini-muscle phenotype causes cardiac changes that have been associated with increased athletic performance in previous studies of mammals.
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