Key result
Moderate intensity treadmill exercise training significantly increased left ventricular capillary density compared to sedentary controls (950 vs 610 counts/mm2, p < 0.05) in post-myocardial infarction rats.
Why the study?
Does moderate-intensity treadmill exercise training improve cardiac angiogenesis in post-myocardial infarction rats?
Does moderate-intensity treadmill exercise training improve cardiac angiogenesis in post-myocardial infarction rats?
Moderate intensity exercise training significantly increases cardiac angiogenesis in post-MI rats, providing a potential mechanism for the clinical benefits of exercise in patients with myocardial infarction.
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Supports angiogenesis as exercise mechanism in post-MI models; hypothesis-generating, requires human validation.
Cardiac angiogenesis after myocardial infarction (MI) is critical to the development of compensatory hypertrophy in the viable myocardium; however, compelling evidence suggests that post-MI cardiac angiogenesis is inadequate, and may promote the transition from adaptive cardiac hypertrophy to left ventricular (LV) dilation and dysfunction.
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Zhang et al. (2018) studied Myocardial Infarction (Animal Model) (n=30). Treadmill exercise training vs. Sedentary (no exercise) was evaluated on Left ventricular capillary density (counts/mm2) (p=<0.05). Moderate intensity treadmill exercise training significantly increased left ventricular capillary density compared to sedentary controls (950 vs 610 counts/mm2, p < 0.05) in post-myocardial infarction rats.
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