Project description:Background: Exercise has a positive effect on overall health. This study was performed to get an overview of the effects of mixed exercise training on skeletal muscl 18 middle-aged men performed 12 weeks of exercise training (2x endurance training and 1x resistance training), muscle biopsies were taken at baseline and 3 days after the last training session
Project description:High-intensity intermittent exercise training (HIIT) has been proposed as an effective approach for improving both anaerobic and aerobic capacities. However, the molecular response of muscles to HIIT remains unknown. We used microarray to examine the effects of HIIT on global gene expression in human skeletal muscle.
Project description:Accounting for transcriptional features of endurance adaptations to training is important and could help elucidate the high variability in oxygen uptake (VO2) response. We aimed to identify whole-transcriptome signatures of an endurance training protocol in whole-blood (leukocytes), PBMCs and skeletal muscle tissue of the same group of individuals in a controlled environment.
Project description:Profile of small RNA contents of plasma Evs in men and women at rest and after a bout of acute resistance exercise both before and after 12 weeks of chronic resistance exercise training. We profile how acute and chronic weight training imapcts EV small RNA contents and how this differs in men and women.
Project description:Changes and plasticity in both gene expression and protein signaling in skeletal muscle is considered to be a major cause of metabolic syndrome, while it has been shown that mild exercise training at lactate threshold (LT) intensity is a safe and effective for prevention of metabolic syndrome. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms related to the beneficial effects of LT training for 60 min/day for 5 days/wk for 12 wk, we performed serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) to examine global mRNA expression in human skeletal muscle. Approximately 57000 SAGE tags were analyzed for before training, as well as 5 days, 6 and 12 wk after the training. The LT training has coordinately induced many genes involved in mitochondrial energy metabolism, fat oxidation, glycolysis and creatine metabolism. Another molecular feature associated with this mild exercise regimen has been an induction of many genes encoding for potent antioxidant enzymes and molecular chaperons. Furthermore, the training modulated the expression levels of 233 novel transcripts. Thus, the current study reveals that LT exercise has favorably altered gene expression in human skeletal muscle to the prevention of metabolic syndrome. Keywords: transcriptome, serial analysis of gene expression, metabolic syndrome, exercise training, lactate threshold
Project description:The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the effect of training on the global transcriptional response of skeletal muscle to an acute bout of resistance exercise. Seven young healthy men and women underwent a 12-week supervised progressive unilateral arm resistance exercise (RE) training program. One week after the last session of training, subjects performed an acute bout of bilateral arm RE in which the trained and the untrained arm exercised at the same relative intensity. A muscle biopsy was obtained 4h post exercise from the biceps brachii of the trained and untrained arm. Trained and untrained muscle samples were analyzed for mRNA levels of over 20,000 annotated genes using Affymetrix U133 Plus 2.0 microarrays.