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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 284: R1277-R1286, 2003. First published December 19, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00644.2002
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Vol. 284, Issue 5, R1277-R1286, May 2003

Prolonged fasting and cortisol reduce myostatin mRNA levels in tilapia larvae; short-term fasting elevates

Buel D. Rodgers1, Gregory M. Weber2, Kevin M. Kelley3, and Michael A. Levine1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21208; 2 US Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Resource Service, National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture, Kearneysville, West Virginia 25430; and 3 Department of Biological Sciences, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, California 90840

Myostatin negatively regulates muscle growth and development and has recently been characterized in several fishes. We measured fasting myostatin mRNA levels in adult tilapia skeletal muscle and in whole larvae. Although fasting reduced some growth indexes in adults, skeletal muscle myostatin mRNA levels were unaffected. By contrast, larval myostatin mRNA levels were sometimes elevated after a short-term fast and were consistently reduced with prolonged fasting. These effects were specific for myostatin, as mRNA levels of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphatase were unchanged. Cortisol levels were elevated in fasted larvae with reduced myostatin mRNA, whereas in addition immersion of larvae in 1 ppm (2.8 µM) cortisol reduced myostatin mRNA in a time-dependent fashion. These results suggest that larval myostatin mRNA levels may initially rise but ultimately fall during a prolonged fast. The reduction is likely mediated by fasting-induced hypercortisolemia, indicating divergent evolutionary mechanisms of glucocorticoid regulation of myostatin mRNA, since these steroids upregulate myostatin gene expression in mammals.

muscle growth and development; Oreochromis mossambicus; growth/differentiating factor-8


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