Publication: Changes in saliva biomarkers during a standardized increasing intensity field exercise test in endurance horses
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Contreras-Aguilar, María Dolores ; Cerón, J.J. ; Muñoz, A. ; Ayala de la Peña, Ignacio
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Elsevier B.V.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2021.100236
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© 2021. The authors. This document is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
This document is the published version of a published work that appeared in final form in Animal.
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Abstract
Salivary biomarkers could be useful to evaluate stress, fitness level, and skeletal muscle damage associ-ated to exercise in horses in an easy and non-painful way. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate if cortisol in saliva (sCor), salivary alpha-amylase (sAMY) and butyrylcholinesterase (sBChE) and lactate (sLA) and creatine kinase (sCK) in saliva of horses can show changes during a standardized exercise test, and if they are related to heart rate variability (HRV) parameters related to sympathetic and parasympathetic tone, fitness level or skeletal muscle damage. For this purpose, ten endurance horses were submitted to a stan-dardized exercise test in field conditions. Saliva and blood were obtained at basal time (TB), after the seven bouts of velocity (T + 01 to T + 07), and 5, 15, 30, and 45 min later (T + 5, T + 15, T + 30, and T+ 45). Five endurance horses in resting condition (control group) were also enrolled. HRV and fitness level parameters, and plasma CK as a marker of muscle damage were also evaluated. Salivaryalpha-amylase increased at T + 30 (P = 0.03), sBChE at T + 5 (P = 008), and sCK at T + 07 (P = 0.009) after the exercise test, with significant differences between the exercise and control groups’ results. The sCor did not show sig-nificant changes during the exercise test in the exercise group but higher concentration compared to the control horses (P < 0.001) were observed. sCor, sAMY, sBChE, and sCK showed a positive correlation (r val-ues between 0.47 and 0.64) with the sympathetic tone and a negative correlation (r values between 0.37 and 0.56) with the parasympathetic tone. In conclusion, sAMY, sBChE, and sCK showed signifi-cant increases in ten endurance horses after an increasing intensity velocity exercise. Values of sCor, sAMY, sBChE, and sCK were associated with HRV, which is used to evaluate stress, and therefore, they could be potentially used to assess the exercise-related stress after a physical effort.
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Animal 15 (2021) 100236
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