“…Incidentally, the AICAR-treated C2C12 myotubes released a significantly high amount of IL-6 and a significantly low amount of MCP-1. These results are consistent with those of previous studies, which report an increase in IL-6 and a decrease in MCP-1 during exercise (Diniz et al, 2019;Troseid et al, 2004). Moreover, previous studies have also reported that an increase in IL-6 promotes UCP1 expression, and a decrease in MCP-1 promotes browning of adipocytes (Laurens et al, 2020;Rajasekaran et al, 2019;Severinsen & Pedersen, 2020).…”