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J Appl Physiol 85: 1898-1902, 1998;
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Vol. 85, Issue 5, 1898-1902, November 1998

Exercise training reduces skeletal muscle membrane arachidonate in the obese (fa/fa) Zucker rat

Kerry J. Ayre1, Stephen D. Phinney2, Anna B. Tang2, and Judith S. Stern2,3

1 Department of Biomedical Science, University of Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia; 2 Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Sacramento 95817; and 3 Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, California 95616

Compared with the lean (Fa/-) genotype, obese (fa/fa) Zucker rats have a relative deficiency of muscle phospholipid arachidonate, and skeletal muscle arachidonate in humans is positively correlated with insulin sensitivity. To assess the hypothesis that the positive effects of exercise training on insulin sensitivity are mediated by increased muscle arachidonate, we randomized 20 lean and 20 obese weanling male Zucker rats to sedentary or treadmill exercise groups. After 9 wk, fasting serum, three skeletal muscles (white gastrocnemius, soleus, and extensor digitorum longus), and heart were obtained. Fasting insulin was halved by exercise training in the obese rat. In white gastrocnemius and extensor digitorum longus (fast-twitch muscles), but not in soleus (a slow-twitch muscle) or heart, phospholipid arachidonate was lower in obese than in lean rats (P < 0.001). In all muscles, exercise in the obese rats reduced arachidonate (P < 0.03, by ANOVA contrast). We conclude that improved insulin sensitivity with exercise in the obese genotype is not mediated by increased muscle arachidonate and that reduced muscle arachidonate in obese Zucker rats is unique to fast-twitch muscles.

phospholipid; fatty acids; insulin


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