101. Physiological Adaptations to Progressive Endurance Exercise Training in Adult and Aged Rats: Insights from the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC).
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Schenk S, Sagendorf TJ, Many GM, Lira AK, de Sousa LGO, Bae D, Cicha M, Kramer KS, Muehlbauer M, Hevener AL, Rector RS, Thyfault JP, Williams JP, Goodyear LJ, Esser KA, Newgard CB, and Bodine SC
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- Animals, Male, Female, Rats, Physical Endurance physiology, Muscle, Skeletal metabolism, Muscle, Skeletal physiology, Endurance Training, Rats, Inbred F344, Physical Conditioning, Animal physiology, Adaptation, Physiological physiology, Aging physiology
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While regular physical activity is a cornerstone of health, wellness, and vitality, the impact of endurance exercise training on molecular signaling within and across tissues remains to be delineated. The Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) was established to characterize molecular networks underlying the adaptive response to exercise. Here, we describe the endurance exercise training studies undertaken by the Preclinical Animal Sites Studies component of MoTrPAC, in which we sought to develop and implement a standardized endurance exercise protocol in a large cohort of rats. To this end, Adult (6-mo) and Aged (18-mo) female (n = 151) and male (n = 143) Fischer 344 rats were subjected to progressive treadmill training (5 d/wk, ∼70%-75% VO2max) for 1, 2, 4, or 8 wk; sedentary rats were studied as the control group. A total of 18 solid tissues, as well as blood, plasma, and feces, were collected to establish a publicly accessible biorepository and for extensive omics-based analyses by MoTrPAC. Treadmill training was highly effective, with robust improvements in skeletal muscle citrate synthase activity in as little as 1-2 wk and improvements in maximum run speed and maximal oxygen uptake by 4-8 wk. For body mass and composition, notable age- and sex-dependent responses were observed. This work in mature, treadmill-trained rats represents the most comprehensive and publicly accessible tissue biorepository, to date, and provides an unprecedented resource for studying temporal-, sex-, and age-specific responses to endurance exercise training in a preclinical rat model., (© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of American Physiological Society.)
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- 2024
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