Activity, Motor Control & Coordination
Pain - Thermal Allodynia / Hyperalgesia
Pain - Spontaneous Pain - Postural Deficit
Pain - Mechanical Allodynia / Hyperalgesia
Anxiety & Depression Disorder
Learning/Memory - Attention - Addiction
Physiology & Respiratory Research
Metabolism - Food & Drink Intake
Pain
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Neurodegeneration
Sensory system
Motor control
Mood Disorders
Other disorders
Muscular system
Joints
Metabolism
Cross-disciplinary subjects
SFN2024: Meet our team in Chicago on booth #876 Authors
M. Ferrer-Alcon, C. Winkler-Hirt, R. Madani, F.E. Perrin, A.C. Kato.
Lab
University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neuroscience, Geneva, Switzerland.
Journal
Neuroscience
Abstract
Physical exercise has been shown to stimulate neurogenesis, increase resistance to brain trauma and disease, improve learning and increase levels of growth factors. We show that low intensity exercise has profound effects on the phenotype of a mouse mutant with progressive motor neuronopathy. These animals normally die at 47 days of age due to motoneuron loss and muscle atrophy. When mice undergo low intensity exercise, their lifespan increased by 74%, they exhibited a decreased loss of motoneurons, improved muscle integrity and a twofold increase in proliferating cells in the spinal cord. The molecular mechanism of neuroprotection may be related to insulin-like-growth factor 1 (IGF-1) since injections of antibodies to IGF-1 abrogated the effects of exercise on the increased life-span. Thus IGF-1 may act as a possible “exercise-induced” neuroprotective factor.
BIOSEB Instruments Used:
Grip strength test (BIO-GS3)
