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    Global proteome changes in the rat diaphragm induced by endurance exercise training

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    Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-saving intervention for many critically ill patients. Unfor- tunately, prolonged MV results in the rapid development of diaphragmatic atrophy and weakness. Importantly, endurance exercise training results in a diaphragmatic phenotype that is protected against ventilator-induced diaphragmatic atrophy and weakness. The mechanisms responsible for this exercise-induced protection against ventilator-induced dia- phragmatic atrophy remain unknown. Therefore, to investigate exercise-induced changes in diaphragm muscle proteins, we compared the diaphragmatic proteome from sedentary and exercise-trained rats. Specifically, using label-free liquid chromatography-mass spectrome- try, we performed a proteomics analysis of both soluble proteins and mitochondrial proteins isolated from diaphragm muscle. The total number of diaphragm proteins profiled in the sol- uble protein fraction and mitochondrial protein fraction were 813 and 732, respectively. Endurance exercise training significantly (P<0.05, FDR <10%) altered the abundance of 70 proteins in the soluble diaphragm proteome and 25 proteins of the mitochondrial proteome. In particular, key cytoprotective proteins that increased in relative abundance following exer- cise training included mitochondrial fission process 1 (Mtfp1; MTP18), 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (3MPST), microsomal glutathione S-transferase 3 (Mgst3; GST-III), and heat shock protein 70 kDa protein 1A/1B (HSP70). While these proteins are known to be cytoprotective in several cell types, the cyto-protective roles of these proteins have yet to be fully elucidated in diaphragm muscle fibers. Based upon these important findings, future experiments can now determine which of these diaphragmatic proteins are sufficient and/or required to promote exercise-induced protection against inactivity-induced muscle atrophy

    Negotiating climate change: The search for joint risk management

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    That human activities play a role in climate warming is well known worldwide. It is the subject of global public opinion building and debate, intergovernmental decision making, and international negotiation. The widely shared concern about this issue is due to the negative, often catastrophic, consequences that are expected to result from climate warming. Atmospheric temperature increases may certainly improve living conditions for people in some parts of the world -- for example, improving growing conditions for certain crops in some areas of northern Scandinavia. However, many more people are expected to be affected by climate-driven disasters. Rising water levels will, for example, put large areas of land under water; redistribution of precipitation will increase the likelihood of serious floods in some parts of the world and of more severe droughts in others; or there will be a growing frequency of storms and hurricanes. The secondary effects of such changes in weather conditions will be decreasing harvests and increasing health problems
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