Why the study?
Does endurance training improve skeletal muscle microcirculation in rats with chronic heart failure?
Population
Rats with chronic heart failure induced by left anterior descending (LAD) artery occlusion, n=30
Comparison
Endurance training vs Sedentary control and Sham surgery groups
Design
Preclinical
Follow-up
10 weeks
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for fiber type-specific revascularization in CHF; human trials required before clinical consideration.
Does endurance training improve skeletal muscle microcirculation in rats with chronic heart failure?
Endurance training induces fiber type-specific revascularization in skeletal muscles of rats with chronic heart failure.
Ranjbar et al. (2017) studied this question.
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