Project

Muscle plasticity 3.0: A multicellular perspective on exercise-induced adaptations in skeletal muscle

Code
bof/baf/4y/2024/01/574
Duration
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Metabolic diseases
    • Exercise physiology
    • Sports sciences
    • Medical transcriptomics
Keywords
Motor unit Skeletal muscle Cellular composition
 
Project description

Skeletal muscle displays an impressive degree of plasticity. Exercise-induced adaptations in skeletal muscle structure and function underlie training and health-promoting effects. However, detailed mechanistic understanding of muscle plasticity is hampered by a poor knowledge of the role of the heterogenous cell types residing within the muscle microenvironment during and after exercise. We here combine a novel methodology for genome-wide transcriptome profiling of individual muscle fibers together with state-of-the-art single-cell and spatial omics approaches to evaluate the cell diversity in human skeletal muscle. This unprecedented detail in muscle cell diversity creates a new (third) layer of insight into our understanding of the exercise-induced muscle plasticity and its related health and performance implications.