PMID- 29626513 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180604 LR - 20180604 IS - 1879-0038 (Electronic) IS - 0378-1119 (Linking) VI - 662 DP - 2018 Jul 1 TI - Effects of exercise training on adipose tissue apelin expression in streptozotocin-nicotinamide induced diabetic rats. PG - 97-102 LID - S0378-1119(18)30364-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.gene.2018.04.003 [doi] AB - Apelin is an adipocyte-derived peptide that plays an important role in regulation of energy homoeostasis and decrease of insulin resistance. We investigated the effects of exercise training on adipose tissue apelin expression in streptozotocin-nicotinamide induced diabetic rats. In this experimental study, 38 male Wistar rats were assigned to 4 groups: sedentary non-diabetic, trained non-diabetic, sedentary diabetic and trained diabetic. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) was induced by intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin and nicotinamide in adult rats. The trained groups ran 8-week on treadmill progressively for 45 min at a speed of 24 m/min and a 5% grade. After the training period, an intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test was performed in addition to the measurement of blood lipids and plasma apelin levels. Apelin mRNA levels in visceral adipose tissue were also analyzed. Two-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation coefficient was used for analyzing data. P < 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Results indicated a significant decrease of insulin resistance followed by a significant increase of plasma levels and mRNA expression of apelin in trained diabetic compared with sedentary diabetic rats. Furthermore, apelin levels did not correlate significantly with body weight and epididymal fat weight in trained diabetic rats. In conclusion, the findings revealed that chronic exercise training, independently of body weight and fat pad weight by decrease of insulin resistance can increase apelin levels in visceral adipose tissue, thereby attenuating the progression of diabetes and decreasing insulin resistance in T2DM rats. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Kazemi, Fahimeh AU - Kazemi F AD - Department of Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: f.kazemi@alzahra.ac.ir. FAU - Zahediasl, Saleh AU - Zahediasl S AD - Endocrine Physiology Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180405 PL - Netherlands TA - Gene JT - Gene JID - 7706761 RN - 0 (Apelin) RN - 0 (Apln protein, rat) RN - 0 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Insulin) RN - 25X51I8RD4 (Niacinamide) RN - 5W494URQ81 (Streptozocin) SB - IM MH - Adipose Tissue/physiology MH - Animals MH - Apelin/*genetics/*metabolism MH - Blood Glucose/metabolism MH - Body Weight MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/metabolism MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/metabolism MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Glucose Tolerance Test MH - Insulin/metabolism MH - Insulin Resistance/physiology MH - Intra-Abdominal Fat/metabolism MH - Male MH - Motor Activity/*physiology MH - Niacinamide/pharmacology MH - Obesity/metabolism MH - Physical Conditioning, Animal/methods MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Streptozocin/pharmacology MH - Transcriptome OTO - NOTNLM OT - Adipokine OT - Aerobic exercise OT - Apelin OT - Type 2 diabetes OT - Visceral adipose tissue EDAT- 2018/04/08 06:00 MHDA- 2018/06/05 06:00 CRDT- 2018/04/08 06:00 PHST- 2018/02/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/03/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/04/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/04/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/06/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/04/08 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0378-1119(18)30364-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.gene.2018.04.003 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Gene. 2018 Jul 1;662:97-102. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2018.04.003. Epub 2018 Apr 5.