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There is in humans, at the muscular level, a great interindividual variability in response to the same mechanical stress. This phenotypic variability is multifactorial, influenced by environmental factors as well as multiple genetic variants. Thus, for the same level of muscle damage, two subjects with the same anthropometric characteristic, the same age, with the same medical history and the same level of physical activity, will present a variable level of muscle regeneration underpinned by the biological function of muscular stem cells and their microenvironment. Thus, faced with the same training, some athletes will develop iterative muscular lesions and more disabling repair deficits than others without knowing the reason of this greater susceptibility. Indeed, the links between the genotype of the skeletal muscle fiber and its response to exercise, as well as the regulation of muscle mass are poorly understood. Yet, in young adults, up to 70% of the observed variability in muscle strength and size is hereditary. This heritability of muscle size and strength seems to be lower in older people, probably related to increased comorbidity. Numerous experiments with athletes subjected to the same resistance exercise training have identified good and bad hypertrophic skeletal muscle responders. However, genetic variants that contribute to skeletal muscle strength and mass are largely understudied while a growing body of evidence indicates that epigenetic effectors, which modulate gene expression, may contribute to human muscle response heterogeneity to the same mechanical stress. Thus, to date, no analysis of the role of the interaction between genetic and epigenetic factors involved in the muscle functional response to exercise exists. The main hypothesis is that the epigenetic status of muscle stem cells (satellite cells) is an important contributor in muscle mass response to exercise by modulating chromatin architecture. Thus this study will identify the epigenetic modifications induced by training and their interaction with the genetic factors involved in the response of the biological function of the satellite cells to this training and on the other hand, to be able to link it to a blood signature.


Clinical Trial Description

The study will be carried out in close collaboration with the Director of the Expertise and Sports Performance Center (CREPS) of Montpellier. Compared to the athlete's usual seasonal training program, his participation in research will be limited to two visits to the Montpellier University Hospital where a quadriceps micro biopsy and a blood test will be carried out. During the first visit to the Montpellier University Hospital, a short clinical examination will also be carried out including an interrogation on his medical history, his consumption of drugs, alcohol, tobacco as well as the measurement of his weight and height and a simple cardiopulmonary auscultation. As part of the standard care for athletes, the training program carried out at CREPS Montpellier will be defined by weekly strength exercises to increase muscle mass. As part of this program and approximately one week before the two visits to the Montpellier University Hospital, an evaluation of the mass and the contractile function of the muscle will be carried out. The measurement of muscle mass will be carried out by Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The contractile function of the quadriceps muscle will be measured on a weight bench equipped with a dynamometer at the CREPS in Montpellier. Data from these assessments will be collected as part of the research. This study will allow the synthesis of a muscular organoid, representative of an in vivo muscle, allowing the in vitro study of muscular lesions associated with the rupture of muscle fibres and the activation of satellite cells allowing the regeneration of damaged fibres. This in vitro muscle model will allow us to evaluate the inter-individual variability of the muscle response to the same mechanical stress and to study its link with the dynamic epigenetic changes specific to each athlete. This study will make it possible, for the first time, to evaluate whether an epigenetic signature predictive of the muscular response to an injury could also be found in blood cells. ;


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NCT number NCT05279196
Study type Interventional
Source University Hospital, Montpellier
Contact Stephan MATECKI, MD-PhD
Phone 467335908
Email stephan.matecki@umontpellier.fr
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date September 2024
Completion date March 2028

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