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Transcription profiling of soleus muscle from lean and obese Zucker rats following exercise training

ABSTRACT: Endurance exercise training has been shown to decrease whole-body and skeletal muscle insulin resistance and increase glucose tolerance in conditions of both pre-diabetes and overt type 2 diabetes. However, the adaptive responses in skeletal muscle at the molecular and genetic level for these beneficial effects of exercise training have not been clearly established in an animal model of pre-diabetes. The present study identifies alterations in skeletal muscle gene expression that occur with exercise training in pre-diabetic, insulin-resistant obese Zucker (fa/fa) rats and insulin-sensitive lean Zucker (Fa/-) rats. Treadmill running for up to 4 weeks caused significant enhancements of glucose tolerance as assessed by the integrated area under the curve for glucose (AUCg) during an oral glucose tolerance test in both lean and obese animals. Using microarray analysis, a set of only 12 genes was identified as both significantly altered (>1.5-fold change relative to sedentary controls; p<0.05) and significantly correlated (p<0.05) with the AUCg. Two of these genes, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-g coactivator 1a (PGC-1a) and the z-isoform of protein kinase C (PKC-z), have known involvement in the regulation of skeletal muscle glucose transport. We confirmed that protein expression levels of PGC-1a and PKC-z were positively correlated with the mRNA expression levels for these two genes. Overall, this study has identified a limited number of genes in soleus muscle of lean and obese Zucker rats that are associated with decreased insulin resistance and increase glucose tolerance following endurance exercise training. These findings could guide the development of pharmaceutical M-^Sexercise mimeticsM-^T in the treatment of insulin-resistant, pre-diabetic or overtly type 2 diabetic individuals.

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

SUBMITTER: Erik Henriksen

PROVIDER: E-TABM-213 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Alterations in soleus muscle gene expression associated with a metabolic endpoint following exercise training by lean and obese Zucker rats.

Ort Tatiana T Gerwien Robert R Lindborg Katherine A KA Diehl Cody J CJ Lemieux Andrew M AM Eisen Andrew A Henriksen Erik J EJ

Physiological genomics 20070206 3

Exercise training decreases insulin resistance and increases glucose tolerance in conditions of prediabetes and overt Type 2 diabetes. However, the adaptive responses in skeletal muscle at the molecular and genetic level for these effects of exercise training have not been clearly established in an animal model of prediabetes. The present study identifies alterations in muscle gene expression that occur with exercise training in prediabetic, insulin-resistant obese Zucker rats and insulin-sensit ...[more]

PMID: 17284668

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