Sports and Health Metabolism

A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Endocrinology and Clinical Metabolic Research".

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Special Issue Editors

University Center for Prevention and Sports Medicine, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: Johannes Scherr's primary research topic is the effects of extreme physical strain (e.g. marathon) on various organs, in particular the immune and cardiovascular systems and metabolism. Furthermore, the effects and possible applications of nutrition.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sport, health, and metabolism have a close physiological and clinical relationship. These three fields of scientific endeavor are inextricably interwoven, and this Special Issue of Metabolites will include articles that provide novel insights into how exercise and athletic endeavor influence health and metabolism.

Technological advances have accelerated scientific discoveries in these areas, and include genomics, metabolomics, proteomics, lipidomics, and gut microbiome characterization. These multi-omics approaches provide a systemwide view of the multifaceted health and metabolic responses to exercise by simultaneously measuring and identifying large numbers of small-molecule metabolites, lipids, proteins, and other molecules. Exhalomics is an innovative approach that noninvasively measures hundreds of metabolic molecules from exhaled breath samples. These data are providing new insights with the potential to improve personalized lifestyle and medical guidance.

This Special Issue will advance scientific understanding in sport, health, and metabolism, with an emphasis on multi-omics approaches. We look forward to reviewing your papers.

Prof. Dr. Johannes Scherr
Prof. Dr. David C. Nieman
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Metabolomics
  • Exhalomics
  • Exercise
  • Athlete
  • Health
  • Proteomics
  • Lipidomics
  • Genomics
  • Sport
  • Metabolism
  • Microbiome

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Real-Time Monitoring of Metabolism during Exercise by Exhaled Breath
by Martin Osswald, Dario Kohlbrenner, Nora Nowak, Jörg Spörri, Pablo Sinues, David Nieman, Noriane Andrina Sievi, Johannes Scherr and Malcolm Kohler
Metabolites 2021, 11(12), 856; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11120856 - 08 Dec 2021
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Continuous monitoring of metabolites in exhaled breath has recently been introduced as an advanced method to allow non-invasive real-time monitoring of metabolite shifts during rest and acute exercise bouts. The purpose of this study was to continuously measure metabolites in exhaled breath samples [...] Read more.
Continuous monitoring of metabolites in exhaled breath has recently been introduced as an advanced method to allow non-invasive real-time monitoring of metabolite shifts during rest and acute exercise bouts. The purpose of this study was to continuously measure metabolites in exhaled breath samples during a graded cycle ergometry cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET), using secondary electrospray high resolution mass spectrometry (SESI-HRMS). We also sought to advance the research area of exercise metabolomics by comparing metabolite shifts in exhaled breath samples with recently published data on plasma metabolite shifts during CPET. We measured exhaled metabolites using SESI-HRMS during spiroergometry (ramp protocol) on a bicycle ergometer. Real-time monitoring through gas analysis enabled us to collect high-resolution data on metabolite shifts from rest to voluntary exhaustion. Thirteen subjects participated in this study (7 female). Median age was 30 years and median peak oxygen uptake (VO2max) was 50 mL·/min/kg. Significant changes in metabolites (n = 33) from several metabolic pathways occurred during the incremental exercise bout. Decreases in exhaled breath metabolites were measured in glyoxylate and dicarboxylate, tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA), and tryptophan metabolic pathways during graded exercise. This exploratory study showed that selected metabolite shifts could be monitored continuously and non-invasively through exhaled breath, using SESI-HRMS. Future studies should focus on the best types of metabolites to monitor from exhaled breath during exercise and related sources and underlying mechanisms. Full article
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Improved Bone Quality and Bone Healing of Dystrophic Mice by Parabiosis
by Hongshuai Li, Aiping Lu, Xueqin Gao, Ying Tang, Sudheer Ravuri, Bing Wang and Johnny Huard
Metabolites 2021, 11(4), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11040247 - 16 Apr 2021
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a degenerative muscle disorder characterized by a lack of dystrophin expression in the sarcolemma of muscle fibers. DMD patients acquire bone abnormalities including osteopenia, fragility fractures, and scoliosis indicating a deficiency in skeletal homeostasis. The dKO (dystrophin/Utrophin double [...] Read more.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a degenerative muscle disorder characterized by a lack of dystrophin expression in the sarcolemma of muscle fibers. DMD patients acquire bone abnormalities including osteopenia, fragility fractures, and scoliosis indicating a deficiency in skeletal homeostasis. The dKO (dystrophin/Utrophin double knockout) is a more severe mouse model of DMD than the mdx mouse (dystrophin deficient), and display numerous clinically-relevant manifestations, including a spectrum of degenerative changes outside skeletal muscle including bone, articular cartilage, and intervertebral discs. To examine the influence of systemic factors on the bone abnormalities and healing in DMD, parabiotic pairing between dKO mice and mdx mice was established. Notably, heterochronic parabiosis with young mdx mice significantly increased bone mass and improved bone micro-structure in old dKO-hetero mice, which showed progressive bone deterioration. Furthermore, heterochronic parabiosis with WT C56/10J mice significantly improved tibia bone defect healing in dKO-homo mice. These results suggest that systemic blood-borne factor(s) and/or progenitors from WT and young mdx mice can influence the bone deficiencies in dKO mice. Understanding these circulating factors or progenitor cells that are responsible to alleviate the bone abnormalities in dKO mice after heterochronic parabiosis might be useful for the management of poor bone health in DMD. Full article
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