Effect of Endurance Exercise Training on Liver Gene Expression in Male and Female Mice.

2020 
Chronic endurance exercise is a therapeutic strategy in the treatment of many chronic diseases in humans, including the prevention and treatment of metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. Metabolic, cardiorespiratory and endocrine pathways targeted by chronic endurance exercise have been identified. In the liver however, the cellular and molecular pathways that are modified by exercise and have preventive or therapeutic relevance to metabolic disease remain unresolved. The mouse model used in the current study allows for the quantification of a human-relevant exercise "dosage". In this study we show hepatic gene expression differences between sedentary female and sedentary male mice, and that chronic exercise modifies the transcription of hepatic genes related to metabolic disease and steatosis in both male and female mice. Chronic exercise induces molecular pathways involved in glucose tolerance, glycolysis and gluconeogenesis while producing a decrease in pathways related to insulin resistance, steatosis, fibrosis, and inflammation. Given these findings, this mouse exercise model has potential to dissect the cellular and molecular hepatic changes following chronic exercise with application to understanding the role that chronic exercise plays in preventing human diseases. Novelty Bullets: • Exercise modifies the hepatic gene expression and hepatic pathways related to metabolic disease in male and female mice. • Gender differences were seen in hepatic gene expression between sedentary and exercised mice. • The mouse exercise model used in this study allows for application and evaluation of exercise effects in human disease.
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