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J Appl Physiol 84: 311-317, 1998;
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Vol. 84, Issue 1, 311-317, January 1998

Exercise training restores decreased cellular immune functions in obese Zucker rats

S. Moriguchi1, M. Kato1, K. Sakai1, S. Yamamoto1, and E. Shimizu2

1 Department of Nutrition and 2 Third Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima 770, Japan

Moriguchi, S., M. Kato, K. Sakai, S. Yamamoto, and E. Shimizu. Exercise training restores decreased cellular immune functions in obese Zucker rats. J. Appl. Physiol. 84(1): 311-317, 1998.---This study investigated whether exercise training had a beneficial effect on the decreased mitogen response and improved a decreased expression of glucose transporter 1 (GLUT-1) in splenocytes from obese Zucker rats. Experimental groups were lean and sedentary and exercise-trained obese Zucker rats. Exercise training, running on a motor-driven treadmill for 5 days/wk for 40 wk, did not induce a significant decrease in body weight in obese Zucker rats. The plasma insulin concentration, showing a significant increase compared with lean Zucker rats, was unaffected by exercise training. However, the plasma triglyceride concentration in obese Zucker rats was significantly depressed by exercise training, whereas it was still higher than that in lean Zucker rats. In addition, natural killer cell activity and concanavalin A-induced mitogenesis of splenic lymphocytes of obese Zucker rats were significantly restored. In these splenic lymphocytes, glucose uptake was significantly lower compared with that in lean Zucker rats, which was also improved by exercise training. Although the expression of GLUT-1, the major glucose transporter in immune cells, was depressed in splenic lymphocytes of obese Zucker rats, exercise training induced a significant improvement. These results suggest that exercise training has a beneficial effect on the decreased cellular immune functions in obese Zucker rats, which is associated, in part, with the improvement in GLUT-1 expression.

obesity; mitogen response; glycogen uptake; glucose transporter; natural killer cell activity

The Journal of Applied Physiology 84(1):311-317
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