Immobilization by 21 days of bed rest results in type II collagen degradation in healthy individuals

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Objective To investigate the effects of 21 days of bed rest immobilization (with and without exercise and nutrition interventions) on type II collagen biomarker concentrations in healthy individuals. Design Twelve healthy male participants (age 34.2±8.3 years; BMI 22.4±1.7 kg/m²) were exposed to 6 days ambulatory baseline data collection (BDC), 21 days head-down-tilt bed rest (HDT) + interventions (HDT+resistive vibration exercise (2 times/week, 25 minutes): RVE; HDT+RVE+whey protein (0.6 g/kg body weight/day) and bicarbonate supplementation (90 mmol KHCO3/day): NeX), and 6 days of re-ambulation in a cross-over designed study. The starting HDT condition was randomized (CON-RVE-NEX, RVE-NEX-CON, NEX-CON-RVE). Blood and urine samples were collected before, during and after HDT. Serum concentrations (s) of CPII, C2C, C1,2C and urinary concentrations (u) of CTX-II and Coll2-1NO2 were measured. Results 21 days of HDT resulted in increased sCPII (p<0.001), sC2C (p<0.001) and sC1,2C (p= 0.001) (highest increases: sCPII (+24.2% - HDT5), sC2C (+24.4% - HDT7), sC1,2C (+13.5% - HDT2). sC2C remained elevated at R+1 (p=0.002) and R+6 (p<0.001) compared to baseline. NeX led to lower sCPII (p<0.001) and sC1,2C (p=0.003) compared to CON. uCTX-II (2 nd void and 24hours urine) increased during HDT (p<0.001, highest increase on HDT21: 2 nd void +82.8% (p<0.001); 24hours urine +77.8% (p<0.001). NeX resulted in lower uCTX-II concentrations in 24h urine (p=0.012) compared to CON. Conclusions 21 days of bed rest immobilization results in type II collagen degradation that does not recover within 6 days of resuming ambulation. The combination of resistive vibration exercise and protein/bicarbonate supplementation minimally counteracted this effect.

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