PMID- 21087324 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110419 LR - 20101122 IS - 1600-0625 (Electronic) IS - 0906-6705 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 12 DP - 2010 Dec TI - Strong exercise stress exacerbates dermatitis in atopic model mice, NC/Nga mice, while proper exercise reduces it. PG - 1067-72 LID - 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2010.01130.x [doi] AB - Atopic dermatitis is well known to exacerbate by stress. How the influence of exercise stress on the skin symptoms in patients with atopic dermatitis has not been clarified. The purpose of our research is to investigate how different strength of exercise stress acts on atopic dermatitis. Specific pathogen-free (SPF) and conventional NC/Nga male mice were used for the experiments. Conventional mice but not SPF group spontaneously develop dermal symptom similar to that of patients with atopic dermatitis at their age of 7 weeks. They were given two types of stress, mild (20 m/min for 60 min) or strong exercise (25 m/min for 90 min), using a treadmill four times per day. The dermal symptom of the conventional group was strongly exacerbated by strong exercise but ameliorated by mild exercise. Under the standard experimental conditions, plasma concentrations of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and substance P in conventional mice increased markedly with concomitant exacerbation of the symptom. The plasma concentrations of these proteins elevated after strong exercise but decreased after mild exercise. Under the conventional conditions, plasma levels of beta-endorphin increased with time by some mechanisms enhanced by the mild exercise. These observations suggested that exercise-induced stress significantly affect the symptom of atopic dermatitis in a pivotal manner depending on the plasma levels of TGF-beta, alpha-MSH, substance P and beta-endorphin. CI - (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S. FAU - Orita, Kumi AU - Orita K AD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology, Osaka City University Medical School, Abeno, Osaka, Japan. FAU - Hiramoto, Keiichi AU - Hiramoto K FAU - Inoue, Risa AU - Inoue R FAU - Sato, Eisuke F AU - Sato EF FAU - Kobayashi, Hiromi AU - Kobayashi H FAU - Ishii, Masamitsu AU - Ishii M FAU - Inoue, Masayasu AU - Inoue M LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20100907 PL - Denmark TA - Exp Dermatol JT - Experimental dermatology JID - 9301549 RN - 0 (Transforming Growth Factor beta) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 33507-63-0 (Substance P) RN - 37341-29-0 (Immunoglobulin E) RN - 581-05-5 (alpha-MSH) RN - 60617-12-1 (beta-Endorphin) RN - 9002-60-2 (Adrenocorticotropic Hormone) SB - IM MH - Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/blood MH - Animals MH - Dermatitis, Atopic/blood/diagnosis/*etiology/metabolism/pathology MH - Exercise Test MH - Immunoglobulin E/blood MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred Strains MH - Physical Conditioning, Animal/*physiology MH - Skin/metabolism/pathology MH - Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms MH - Stress, Physiological/*physiology MH - Substance P/metabolism MH - Transforming Growth Factor beta/blood MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/blood MH - alpha-MSH/blood MH - beta-Endorphin/metabolism EDAT- 2010/11/23 06:00 MHDA- 2011/04/20 06:00 CRDT- 2010/11/20 06:00 PHST- 2010/11/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/11/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/04/20 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2010.01130.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Exp Dermatol. 2010 Dec;19(12):1067-72. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0625.2010.01130.x. Epub 2010 Sep 7.