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Resistance or aerobic training decreases blood pressure and improves cardiovascular autonomic control and oxidative stress in hypertensive menopausal rats.
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Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) [J Appl Physiol (1985)] 2016 Oct 01; Vol. 121 (4), pp. 1032-1038. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jun 23. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- We investigated whether resistance training (RT) vs. aerobic training (AT) differentially impacts on arterial pressure and related mechanisms in ovariectomized spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). Female SHRs were ovariectomized and assigned to one of the following groups: sedentary, AT, or RT; sham sedentary SHR were used as control group. AT was performed on a treadmill, whereas RT was performed on a vertical ladder. Both exercise protocols were performed for 8 wk, 5 days/wk. Arterial pressure, baroreflex sensitivity, autonomic modulation, and cardiac oxidative stress parameters (lipid peroxidation, protein oxidation, redox balance, NADPH oxidase, and antioxidant enzymes activities) were analyzed. Ovariectomy increased mean arterial pressure (∼9 mmHg), sympathetic modulation (∼40%), and oxidative stress in sedentary rats. Both RT and AT reduced mean arterial pressure (∼20 and ∼8 mmHg, respectively) and improved baroreflex sensitivity compared with sedentary ovariectomized rats. However, RT-induced arterial pressure decrease was significantly less pronounced than AT. Lipid peroxidation and protein oxidation were decreased while antioxidant enzymes were increased in both trained groups vs. sedentaries. The reduced gluthatione was higher after AT vs. other groups, whereas oxidized gluthatione was lower after RT vs. AT. Moreover, sympathetic and parasympathetic modulations were highly correlated with cardiac oxidative stress parameters. In conclusion, both RT and AT can decrease arterial pressure in a model of hypertension and menopause; although, at different magnitudes this decrease was related to attenuated autonomic dysfunction in association with cardiac oxidative stress improvement in both exercise protocols.<br /> (Copyright © 2016 the American Physiological Society.)
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- Animals
Autonomic Nervous System physiopathology
Female
Heart Rate
Hypertension diagnosis
Lipid Peroxidation
Physical Conditioning, Animal methods
Rats
Rats, Inbred SHR
Reactive Oxygen Species blood
Treatment Outcome
Baroreflex
Blood Pressure
Hypertension physiopathology
Hypertension therapy
Menopause
Oxidative Stress
Resistance Training methods
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1522-1601
- Volume :
- 121
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27339182
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00130.2016