Why the study?
The impact of resistance exercise on cardiac tissue PI3K and AKT1 expression and physiological cardiac hypertrophy in type 2 diabetes remained to be determined.
Does a 6-week resistance exercise program improve PI3K/AKT1 gene expression and physiological cardiac hypertrophy in type 2 diabetic rats?
Population
21 male Wistar rats (220±20 g) with diet-induced obesity
Comparison
Exercise diabetes vs control T2D vs non-diabetes
Design
Randomized preclinical animal study
Follow-up
6 weeks
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating in T2D rat models; leaves open translation to human cardiac hypertrophy or exercise protocols.
Does a 6-week resistance exercise program improve PI3K/AKT1 gene expression and physiological cardiac hypertrophy in type 2 diabetic rats?
Resistance training induces physiological cardiac hypertrophy in diabetic rats, potentially mediated by the PI3K/AKT1 signaling pathway.
Dastyar et al. (2022) studied this question.