Journal article
Swim training sensitizes myocardial response to insulin: Role of Akt-dependent eNOS activation
Cardiovascular research, Vol.75(2), pp.369-380
07/15/2007
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardiores.2007.04.015
PMID: 17537411
Abstract
Objectives: Physical activity has been well known to benefit heart function. The improved autonomic nervous activity is considered to be mainly responsible for this beneficial effect. However, the precise mechanism behind the intrinsic myocardial responsiveness to exercise is still unclear. This study was designed to examine the effect of swim training on myocardial response to insulin with a special focus on the endogenous endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS)-nitric oxide (NO) cascade.
Methods: Adult male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were subjected to a 10-week free-loading swim training (3 h/day, 5 days/week). Contractile response to insulin at the levels of cardiomyocytes and isolated perfused heart, myocardial glucose uptake and post-insulin receptor signaling cascades were evaluated.
Results: Swim training enhanced cardiac contractile response to insulin in cardiomyocytes and isolated perfused heart, respectively. The improved cardiac response was accompanied by facilitated insulin-stimulated glucose uptake, GLUT4 translocation and upregulation of Akt and eNOS expression (p < 0.01). Treatment with insulin resulted in a 3.6- and 2.2-fold increase of eNOS phosphorylation (p < 0.01), as well as a 3.0- and 1.9-fold increase of Akt phosphorylation in exercise and sedentary groups, respectively (p < 0.01). In addition, exercise significantly facilitated insulin-induced myocardial NO production (p < 0.01 vs. sedentary). Moreover, pretreatment with either LY294002, a phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI-3K) inhibitor or (L)-NAME, a NOS inhibitor, abolished the exercise-induced sensitization of myocardial contractile response to insulin, insulin-induced NO production and phosphorylation of Akt and eNOS.
Conclusion: These results demonstrate that swim training is capable of sensitizing myocardial contractile response to insulin via upregulation of Akt- and eNOS signaling cascades. (c) 2007 European Society of Cardiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Swim training sensitizes myocardial response to insulin: Role of Akt-dependent eNOS activation
- Creators
- Quan-Jiang Zhang - Air Force Medical UniversityQiu-Xia Li - Air Force Medical UniversityHai-Feng ZhangKun-Ru Zhang - Air Force Medical UniversityWen-Yi GuoHai-Chang Wang - Air Force Medical UniversityZhuan Zhou - Peking UniversityHe-Ping ChengJun Ren - University of WyomingFeng Gao - Air Force Medical University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Cardiovascular research, Vol.75(2), pp.369-380
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cardiores.2007.04.015
- PMID
- 17537411
- ISSN
- 0008-6363
- eISSN
- 1755-3245
- Number of pages
- 12
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/15/2007
- Academic Unit
- Cardiovascular Medicine; Endocrinology and Metabolism; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984359883502771
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