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. 2011 May;26(3):335-40.
doi: 10.1007/s10103-010-0850-5. Epub 2010 Nov 4.

Effects of low-level laser therapy on expression of TNF-α and TGF-β in skeletal muscle during the repair process

Raquel Agnelli Mesquita-Ferrari  1 , Manoela Domingues Martins, Jose Antônio Silva Jr, Tatiana Dias da Silva, Roberto Farina Piovesan, Vanessa Christina Santos Pavesi, Sandra Kalil Bussadori, Kristianne Porta Santos Fernandes
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Effects of low-level laser therapy on expression of TNF-α and TGF-β in skeletal muscle during the repair process

Raquel Agnelli Mesquita-Ferrari et al. Lasers Med Sci. 2011 May.

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on the expression of TNF-α and TGF-β in the tibialis anterior muscle of rats following cryoinjury. Muscle regeneration involves cell proliferation, migration and differentiation and is regulated by growth factors and cytokines. A growing body of evidence suggests that LLLT promotes skeletal muscle regeneration by reducing the duration of acute inflammation and accelerating tissue repair. Adult male Wistar rats (n = 35) were randomly divided into three groups: control group (no lesion, untreated, n = 5), cryoinjury without LLLT group (n = 15), and cryoinjury with LLLT group (n = 15). The injured region was irradiated three times a week using an AlGaInP laser (660 nm; beam spot 0.04 cm(2), output power 20 mW, power density 500 mW/cm(2), energy density 5 J/cm(2), exposure time 10 s). Muscle remodeling was evaluated at 1, 7 and 14 days (long-term) following injury. The muscles were removed and total RNA was isolated using TRIzol reagent and cDNA synthesis. Real-time polymerase chain reactions were performed using TNF-α and TGF-β primers; GAPDH was used to normalize the data. LLLT caused a decrease in TNF-α mRNA expression at 1 and 7 days following injury and in TGF-β mRNA expression at 7 days following cryoinjury in comparison to the control group. LLLT modulated cytokine expression during short-term muscle remodeling, inducing a decrease in TNF-α and TGF-β.

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