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APOPTOSIS IN SKELETAL MUSCLES AND KIDNEY AFTER ACUTE AND CHRONIC EXERCISE

Apoptosis in adult organism plays a role in removing of unnecessary, damaged or potentially dangerous cells. Apoptosis inducing factors include DNA damaging factors, such as oxidative stress or partial ischemia. Physical exercise may lead to disturbance and damage in many organs, especially in untrained organisms. It has been demonstrated that an intense exercise could finally lead to apoptosis in skeletal muscles, however apoptotic changes were restricted to single myonuclei.

STRESS PROTEINS IN EXERCISE ADAPTATION

Intracellular protein destroying and impairment of their synthesis result in disturbance of cell homeostasis and can lead to cell death. Counteracting these changes the cell induces synthesis of stress proteins among others. Physical exercise has stress attributes, especially if it is a long-lasting and intensive one. It can be assumed that this will bring about an intensification of stress protein expression what was experimentally confirmed. However the significance of this reaction is not fully clear taking into account the variety of functions the stress protein act in the organism.

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Andrzej Łukaszyk - przewodniczący, Zofia Bielańska-Osuchowska, Szczepan Biliński, Mieczysław Chorąży, Aleksander Koj, Włodzimierz Korochoda, Leszek Kuźnicki, Aleksandra Stojałowska, Lech Wojtczak

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