Aerobic exercise training and resistance exercise training are both well-known for their ability to improve human health; especially in individuals with type 2 diabetes. However, there are critical differences between these two main forms of exercise training and the adaptations that they induce in the body that may account for their beneficial effects. This article reviews the literature and highlights key gaps in our current understanding of the effects of aerobic and resistance exercise training on the regulation of systemic glucose homeostasis, skeletal muscle glucose transport and skeletal muscle glucose metabolism.
Context Recent preclinical data suggests exercise during pregnancy can improve the metabolic phenotype not only of the mother, but of the developing offspring as well. However, investigations in human offspring are lacking. Objective To characterize the effect of maternal aerobic exercise on the metabolic phenotype of the offspring’s mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Design Randomized controlled trial. Setting Clinical research facility. Patients Healthy female adults between 18-35 years of age and ≤16 weeks’ gestation. Intervention Mothers were randomized into one of two groups: aerobic exercise (AE, n=10) or non-exercise control (CON, n=10). The AE group completed 150 min of weekly moderate-intensity exercise, according to ACSM guidelines, during pregnancy while controls attended stretching sessions. Main Outcome Measures Following delivery, MSCs were isolated from the umbilical cord of the offspring and metabolic tracer and immunoblotting experiments were completed in the undifferentiated (D0) or myogenically differentiated (D21) state. Results AE-MSCs at D0 had an elevated fold-change over basal in insulin-stimulated glycogen synthesis and reduced non-oxidized glucose metabolite (NOGM) production (p≤0.05). At D21, AE-MSCs had a significant elevation in glucose partitioning toward oxidation (oxidation/NOGM ratio) compared to CON (p≤0.05). Immunoblot analysis revealed elevated complex I expression in the AE-MSCs at D21 (p≤0.05). Basal and palmitate-stimulated lipid metabolism was similar between groups at D0 and D21. Conclusions These data provide evidence of a programmed metabolic phenotype in human offspring with maternal aerobic exercise during pregnancy.
Elevated mitochondrial H2O2 emission and an oxidative shift in cytosolic redox environment have been linked to high fat diet-induced insulin resistance in skeletal muscle. To test specifically whether increased flux through mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation, in the absence of elevated energy demand, directly alters mitochondrial function and redox state in muscle, two genetic models characterized by increased muscle β-oxidation flux were studied. In mice overexpressing peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-α in muscle (MCK-PPARα), lipid supported mitochondrial respiration, membrane potential (ΔΨm) and H2O2 production rate (JH2O2) were increased, which coincided with a more oxidized cytosolic redox environment, reduced muscle glucose uptake, and whole-body glucose intolerance despite an increased rate of energy expenditure. Similar results were observed in lipin-1 deficient, fatty-liver dystrophic mice, another model characterized by increased β-oxidation flux and glucose intolerance. Crossing MCAT (mitochondrial-targeted catalase) with MCK-PPARα mice normalized JH2O2 production, redox environment and glucose tolerance, but surprisingly both basal and absolute insulin-stimulated rates of glucose uptake in muscle remained depressed. Also surprising, when placed on a high fat diet MCK-PPARα mice were characterized by much lower whole body, fat and lean mass as well as improved glucose tolerance relative to wild-type mice, providing additional evidence that overexpression of PPARα in muscle imposes more extensive metabolic stress than experienced by wild-type mice on a high fat diet. Overall, the findings suggest that driving an increase in skeletal muscle fatty acid oxidation in the absence of metabolic demand imposes mitochondrial reductive stress and elicits multiple counterbalance metabolic responses in attempt to restore bioenergetic homeostasis.
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