Journal
NUTRIENTS
Volume 14, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu14112179
Keywords
physical exercise; ladder-climbing training; inflammation; insulin resistance; obesity
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- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) [88881.064995/2014-01]
- Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [311323/2015-4]
- Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia em Doencas Cerebrais, Excitotoxicidade e Neuroprotecao (INCT-EM)
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This study found that ladder climbing, as a model of resistance exercise, can reverse the metabolic and inflammatory effects of high-fat diet-induced obesity in mice. The training reduced body weight, adipocyte size, improved glycemic control, and reduced inflammation in skeletal muscles.
This study investigates whether ladder climbing (LC), as a model of resistance exercise, can reverse whole-body and skeletal muscle deleterious metabolic and inflammatory effects of high-fat (HF) diet-induced obesity in mice. To accomplish this, Swiss mice were fed for 17 weeks either standard chow (SC) or an HF diet and then randomly assigned to remain sedentary or to undergo 8 weeks of LC training with progressive increases in resistance weight. Prior to beginning the exercise intervention, HF-fed animals displayed a 47% increase in body weight (BW) and impaired ability to clear blood glucose during an insulin tolerance test (ITT) when compared to SC animals. However, 8 weeks of LC significantly reduced BW, adipocyte size, as well as glycemia under fasting and during the ITT in HF-fed rats. LC also increased the phosphorylation of Akt(Ser473) and AMPK(Thr172) and reduced tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin 1 beta (IL1-beta) contents in the quadriceps muscles of HF-fed mice. Additionally, LC reduced the gene expression of inflammatory markers and attenuated HF-diet-induced NADPH oxidase subunit gp91phox in skeletal muscles. LC training was effective in reducing adiposity and the content of inflammatory mediators in skeletal muscle and improved whole-body glycemic control in mice fed an HF diet.
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