scholarly journals Exercise training enhances white adipose tissue metabolism in rats selectively bred for low- or high-endurance running capacity

2013 ◽  
Vol 305 (3) ◽  
pp. E429-E438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin J. Stephenson ◽  
Sarah J. Lessard ◽  
Donato A. Rivas ◽  
Matthew J. Watt ◽  
Ben B. Yaspelkis ◽  
...  

Impaired visceral white adipose tissue (WAT) metabolism has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several lifestyle-related disease states, with diminished expression of several WAT mitochondrial genes reported in both insulin-resistant humans and rodents. We have used rat models selectively bred for low- (LCR) or high-intrinsic running capacity (HCR) that present simultaneously with divergent metabolic phenotypes to test the hypothesis that oxidative enzyme expression is reduced in epididymal WAT from LCR animals. Based on this assumption, we further hypothesized that short-term exercise training (6 wk of treadmill running) would ameliorate this deficit. Approximately 22-wk-old rats (generation 22) were studied. In untrained rats, the abundance of mitochondrial respiratory complexes I–V, citrate synthase (CS), and PGC-1 was similar for both phenotypes, although CS activity was greater than 50% in HCR ( P = 0.09). Exercise training increased CS activity in both phenotypes but did not alter mitochondrial protein content. Training increased the expression and phosphorylation of proteins with roles in β-adrenergic signaling, including β3-adrenergic receptor (16% increase in LCR; P < 0.05), NOR1 (24% decrease in LCR, 21% decrease in HCR; P < 0.05), phospho-ATGL (25% increase in HCR; P < 0.05), perilipin (25% increase in HCR; P < 0.05), CGI-58 (15% increase in LCR; P < 0.05), and GLUT4 (16% increase in HCR; P < 0.0001). A training effect was also observed for phospho-p38 MAPK (12% decrease in LCR, 20% decrease in HCR; P < 0.05) and phospho-JNK (29% increase in LCR, 20% increase in HCR; P < 0.05). We conclude that in the LCR-HCR model system, mitochondrial protein expression in WAT is not affected by intrinsic running capacity or exercise training. However, training does induce alterations in the activity and expression of several proteins that are essential to the intracellular regulation of WAT metabolism.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lambert ◽  
Marie Hokayem ◽  
Claire Thomas ◽  
Odile Fabre ◽  
Cécile Cassan ◽  
...  

One of the major insulin resistance instigators is excessive adiposity and visceral fat depots. Individually, exercise training and polyphenol intake are known to exert health benefits as improving insulin sensitivity. However, their combined curative effects on established obesity and insulin resistance need further investigation particularly on white adipose tissue alterations. Therefore, we compared the effects on different white adipose tissue depot alterations of a combination of exercise and grape polyphenol supplementation in obese insulin-resistant rats fed a high-fat diet to the effects of a high-fat diet alone or a nutritional supplementation of grape polyphenols (50 mg/kg/day) or exercise training (1 hr/day to 5 days/wk consisting of treadmill running at 32 m/min for a 10% slope), for a total duration of 8 weeks. Separately, polyphenol supplementation and exercise decreased the quantity of all adipose tissue depots and mesenteric inflammation. Exercise reduced adipocytes’ size in all fat stores. Interestingly, combining exercise to polyphenol intake presents no more cumulative benefit on adipose tissue alterations than exercise alone. Insulin sensitivity was improved at systemic, epididymal, and inguinal adipose tissues levels in trained rats thus indicating that despite their effects on adipocyte morphological/metabolic changes, polyphenols at nutritional doses remain less effective than exercise in fighting insulin resistance.


1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Deshaies ◽  
Gilles Lortie ◽  
Denis Richard

This study was conducted to determine serum lipid levels and the activity of lipoprotein lipase in epididymal white adipose tissue of rats undergoing exercise training. During the 8-week period of treatment, one group of rats was kept sedentary and the remaining animals were exercise trained either continually (1 h of daily treadmill running) or intermittently (alternate weeks of daily running and inactivity). Exercise training, either continual or intermittent, decreased postprandial serum total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations, which returned to sedentary levels in the intermittently trained animals following a week of rest. Lipoprotein lipase activity in whole epididymal adipose pad was lower in rats trained continually than in the sedentary group at the end of the treatment. The intermittent training program elicited large fluctuations in both the specific (per milligram of protein) and total (per tissue) activity of lipoprotein lipase in white adipose tissue. During rest periods, enzyme activity rose to levels that were higher than those of sedentary rats, whereas lipase activity was below that of sedentary animals following a week of running. In the last exercise–rest cycle, body weight gain of the intermittently trained rats was nearly abolished during the week of running, but it increased above that of sedentary animals during weeks of rest. The present results suggest that the modulation of lipoprotein lipase activity in white adipose tissue is one of the adaptations that take place to accommodate the fluctuations in the rate of energy deposition that occur in the rat during an intermittent training program.Key words: exercise training, cholesterol, white adipose tissue, lipoprotein lipase.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e001431
Author(s):  
Long Li ◽  
Caoxin Huang ◽  
Hongyan Yin ◽  
Xiaofang Zhang ◽  
Dongmei Wang ◽  
...  

IntroductionExercise training has been shown to be the most effective strategy to combat obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. However, exercise promotes loss of adipose tissue mass and improves obesity-related hepatic steatosis through mechanisms that remain obscure.Research design and methodsTo study the role of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced adiposity and hepatic steatosis during treadmill running, IL-6 knockout (IL-6 KO) mice and wild-type (WT) mice were randomly divided into lean, obese (fed a HFD) and trained obese groups (fed a HFD and exercise trained).ResultsAfter 20 weeks of HFD feeding and 8 weeks of treadmill running, we found that exercise obviously reduced HFD-induced body weight gain, inhibited visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) expansion and almost completely reversed obesity-related intrahepatic fat accumulation in WT mice. However, IL-6 knockout (IL-6 KO) mice are refractory to the benefits of treadmill training on body weight, VAT and SAT mass elevation, and hepatic steatosis. Moreover, a panel of lipolytic-related and thermogenic-related genes, including ATGL, HSL and PGC-1α, was upregulated in the VAT and SAT of WT mice that received exercise training compared with untrained mice, which was not observed in IL-6 KO mice. In addition, exercise training resulted in a significant inhibition of hepatic peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ) expression in WT mice, and these effects were not noted in IL-6 KO mice.ConclusionThese results revealed that IL-6 is involved in the prevention of obesity and hepatic fat accumulation during exercise training. The mechanisms underlying these antiobesity effects may be associated with enhanced lipolysis and thermogenesis in white adipose tissue. The improvement in hepatic steatosis by exercise training may benefit from the marked inhibition of PPAR-γ expression by IL-6.


1989 ◽  
Vol 256 (4) ◽  
pp. H1110-H1116 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Poole ◽  
O. Mathieu-Costello ◽  
J. B. West

The total capillary length available for blood-tissue transfer is determined by the number and orientation of the capillaries. Therefore, whether capillary tortuosity changes with exercise training has important implications for peripheral gas exchange. To determine the effects of exercise training on capillary orientation and capillary length per volume of muscle fiber [Jv(c,f)] female rats were trained by treadmill running (30 m/min, up to 60 min/day, 5 days/wk) for 4 wk. Muscles from control and trained rats were perfusion fixed at sarcomere lengths (l) ranging from 1.59 to 2.15 microns, and morphometric techniques were used to estimate capillary orientation and Jv(c,f). Training increased (P less than 0.05) musculus soleus oxidative capacity 35% [as estimated from citrate synthase activity: 24.7 +/- 1.4 to 34.7 +/- 1.0 (SE) mumol.g-1.min-1], capillary-to-fiber ratio 30% (2.17 +/- 0.06 to 2.83 +/- 0.05), and Jv(c,f) 32% (1,886 +/- 73 to 2,496 +/- 180 mm-2). Capillary tortuosity (as determined from comparisons of transverse and longitudinal sections) was a direct function of l in control and trained rats and contributed 17-73% of capillary length above that estimated from capillary counts on transverse sections. We conclude that capillary tortuosity in m. soleus is unchanged by training. Therefore, Jv(c,f) increases as a consequence of increased capillary number. M. soleus citrate synthase activity is best correlated with Jv(c,f) and not with capillary counts on transverse sections. We hypothesize that training-induced muscle changes of capillary geometry improve O2 delivery to skeletal muscle and may therefore alter the metabolic response (e.g., lactate accumulation) to exercise after training.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. e64123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stine Ringholm ◽  
Jakob Grunnet Knudsen ◽  
Lotte Leick ◽  
Anders Lundgaard ◽  
Maja Munk Nielsen ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasquale Nigro ◽  
Roeland J. W. Middelbeek ◽  
Christiano R. R. Alves ◽  
Susana Rovira–Llopis ◽  
Krithika Ramachandran ◽  
...  

Recent studies demonstrate that adaptations to white adipose tissue are important components of the beneficial effects of exercise training on metabolic health. Exercise training favorably alters the phenotype of subcutaneous inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT) in male mice including decreasing fat mass, improving mitochondrial function, inducing beiging and stimulating the secretion of adipokines. Here, we find that despite performing more voluntary wheel running compared to males, these adaptations do not occur in the iWAT of female mice. Consistent with sex-specific adaptations, we report that mRNA expression of androgen receptor co-activators are upregulated in iWAT from trained male mice, and that testosterone treatment of primary adipocytes derived from the iWAT of male, but not female mice, phenocopies exercise-induced metabolic adaptations. Sex-specificity also occurs in the secretome profile, as we identify Cysteine Rich Secretory Protein 1(<i>Crisp1</i>) as a novel adipokine that is only secreted from male iWAT in response to exercise. <i>Crisp1</i> expression is upregulated by testosterone and functions to increase glucose and fatty acid uptake. Our finding that adaptations to iWAT with exercise training are dramatically greater in male mice has potential clinical implications for understanding the different metabolic response to exercise training in males and females, and demonstrates the importance of investigating both sexes in studies of adipose tissue biology.


1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 1282-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Gosselin ◽  
M. Betlach ◽  
A. C. Vailas ◽  
M. L. Greaser ◽  
D. P. Thomas

Increases in aerobic capacity in both young and senescent rats consequent to endurance exercise training are now known to occur not only in locomotor skeletal muscle but also in diaphragm. In the current study the effects of aging and exercise training on the myosin heavy chain (MHC) composition were determined in both the costal and crural diaphragm regions of female Fischer 344 rats. Exercise training [treadmill running at 75% maximal oxygen consumption (1 h/day, 5 day/wk, x 10 wk)] resulted in similar increases in plantaris muscle citrate synthase activity in both young (5 mo) and old (23 mo) trained animals (P < 0.05). Computerized densitometric image analysis of fast and slow MHC bands revealed the ratio of fast to slow MHC to be significantly higher (P < 0.005) in the crural compared with costal diaphragm region in both age groups. In addition, a significant age-related increase (P < 0.05) in percentage of slow MHC was observed in both diaphragm regions. However, exercise training failed to change the relative proportion of slow MHC in either the costal or crural region.


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