Effect of Acute Aerobic Exercise and Rapamycin Treatment on Autophagy in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of Adults With Prediabetes

Recently, a malfunction of the autophagic pathway has been implicated with impaired glucose metabolism and progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes. The aims of this study were to investigate the effect of exercise and rapamycin (RAPA) treatment on the autophagic process in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from people with prediabetes compared with control subjects.