Project description:Regular physical exercise reduces cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality through several biological mechanisms. We were interested in white blood cell microRNA expression in response to exercise. Ten healthy adult males (19-39 years old) undertook 30 minutes of continuous treadmill running at 80% of maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max). Blood samples were taken before and immediately after exercise. Whole-genome microRNAs were then analysed in the extracted RNA.
Project description:Microarray analysis was performed with RNA isolated from vastus lateralis muscle biopsies of lean/overweight subjects following 18 days of aerobic exercise training. Samples from lean active individuals were also included. Exercise training led to robust changes in trained muscle. The lean active group profile was distinct from the pre-exercise samples. These results help define the molecular changes associated with aerobic training and contrast with an active phenotype.
Project description:Transcriptome wide analysis of the skeletal muscle response to exercise in humans. Subjects performed one 60-min bout of moderate-intensity single-leg knee-extension exercise, and samples were obtained by biopsy of the vastus lateralis muscle before, immediately after, and at 3 hr post-exercise. Eight subjects were control (no drug), and eight received combined H1/H2-histamine receptor blockade prior to exercise.
Project description:Exercise is recognized as a first-line lifestyle therapy for many cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension. Despite the abundant health-promoting effects of exercise, in-depth characterization of circulatory factors mediating these benefits remain understudied in humans. Moreover, how different modes of exercise uniquely regulate these processes is unclear. Here, we address these questions by conducting a multi-cohort human exercise intervention, incorporating sprint-interval exercise (SIE), moderate-intensity exercise (MIE), and treadmill exercise to exhaustion to analyze intensity-dependent regulation of adipocytes and bulk adipose tissue. We find that exercise intensity uniquely influences the plasma proteome and plasma metabolome, and culturing primary human adipocytes with these plasma samples results in robust intensity-dependent transcriptome changes. We confirm many of these genes are similarly regulated by intense exercise in vivo, via RNA-sequencing of bulk adipose tissue following treadmill exercise to exhaustion. These findings underscore intensity-dependent regulation of adipose tissue following exercise.
Project description:Lean nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly recognized as a distinct clinical phenotype with limited evidence for effective non-pharmacological interventions and unclear mechanistic pathways. Aerobic exercise is recommended for NAFLD management; however, its effects and the gut microbiota–associated mechanisms in lean NAFLD remain incompletely understood. This dataset was generated from a randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04882644). Participants assigned to the aerobic exercise intervention group provided fecal samples at baseline and after the 3-month intervention. A total of 33 paired fecal samples were included in this dataset. Gut microbiota profiles were generated using shotgun metagenomic sequencing. The dataset includes processed and de-identified species-level relative abundance tables derived from fecal samples collected before and after the intervention. These data were used to characterize exercise-induced alterations in gut microbial composition and interindividual variability in microbiota responses to aerobic exercise in lean NAFLD. The data support integrative analyses with clinical phenotypes and circulating metabolomic profiles to explore gut microbiota–associated mechanisms underlying the metabolic benefits of aerobic exercise.