Fábio Henrique Dos Santos, Ana Flávia Sordi, Solange Marta Franzói De Moraes, Maria Montserrat Diaz Pedrosa, Sidney Barnabé Peres
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Abstract
Context: Physical exercise is one of many environmental variables that may affect an organism through epigenetic mechanisms, and thus, it may be passed on to the offspring.
Objective: We assessed the effect of resistance training by the parents on mice offspring.
Materials and methods: Training protocol lasted eight weeks, being males and females paired for mating. After birth, the litters were adjusted to eight pups, organised into four groups: sedentary parents (SS), trained parents (TT), sedentary fathers and trained mothers (ST), and trained fathers and sedentary mothers (TS). Male and female pups were analysed separately at the age of 21 days. One-way ANOVA or Kruskal-Wallis was applied when appropriate at the significance level of p < 0.05.
Results: Resistance training improved the strength of both male and female parents. HOMA-IR index of the female offspring of groups ST and TS was improved, as well as that of the male offspring of groups TT and ST. In addition, there was a discrete reduction of adiposity in the offspring when at least one of the parents was trained.
Conclusion: Therefore, parental resistance training improved insulin sensitivity and adiposity of male and female offspring suggesting resistance training as a beneficial preconception health strategy for better metabolic outcomes in future generations.
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Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry: The Journal of Metabolic Diseases is an international peer-reviewed journal which has been relaunched to meet the increasing demand for integrated publication on molecular, biochemical and cellular aspects of metabolic diseases, as well as clinical and therapeutic strategies for their treatment. It publishes full-length original articles, rapid papers, reviews and mini-reviews on selected topics. It is the overall goal of the journal to disseminate novel approaches to an improved understanding of major metabolic disorders.
The scope encompasses all topics related to the molecular and cellular pathophysiology of metabolic diseases like obesity, type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome, and their associated complications.
Clinical studies are considered as an integral part of the Journal and should be related to one of the following topics:
-Dysregulation of hormone receptors and signal transduction
-Contribution of gene variants and gene regulatory processes
-Impairment of intermediary metabolism at the cellular level
-Secretion and metabolism of peptides and other factors that mediate cellular crosstalk
-Therapeutic strategies for managing metabolic diseases
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