Negin Kazemipour; Mohammad Faramarzi; Ebrahim Banitalebi
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Purpose: Myostatin, its inhibitor follistatin have been proposed as factors that could potentially modify biological aging. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 12 weeks elastic-band resistance training on myostatin, follistatin levels in elderly women with osteosarcopenic obesity. ...
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Purpose: Myostatin, its inhibitor follistatin have been proposed as factors that could potentially modify biological aging. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 12 weeks elastic-band resistance training on myostatin, follistatin levels in elderly women with osteosarcopenic obesity. Methodology: In this randomized, single blind randomized clinical trial, 48 elderly women with osteosarcopenic obesity (based on the results of the DEXA test, age 64.63 ± 3.68 (years), fat percentage 45.4 ± 6.6 (%), BMI 33.1 ± 3.71 (kg/m2), T score of bone minerals density of femur and 1-4 lumbar spine -1.86 ± 1.42) were randomly divided to control (n = 22) and exercise (n = 26). The training group performed 12 weeks and three sessions a week elastic-band resistance training for all major muscle groups. 48 hours before and after 12 weeks of intervention, blood sampling intervention was performed. Paired-sample t-test was used for intra-group comparisons and Ancova was used for comparison between groups. Results: The between groups comparison showed the a mount of significant difference in Follistatin (P=0.002) in training group, weight (P = 0.001), fat percentage (P = 0.001) increased and the ratio of follystatin to myostatin (P = 0.018) decreasedsignificantly.incontrol groups. However, there were no significant difference in body mass index (P = 0.054), myostatin (P=0.095) between groups. Conclusion: Resistance training with elastic band seems to be an appropriate exercise strategy that can improve body composition and muscle mass in elderly people with osteosarcopenic obesity by modulating follistatin and myostatin levels.
Z Shanazari; M Faramarzi; E Banitalebi; R Hemmati
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Aim: One of the most important and prevalent disorders in elderly people is age-related muscular atrophy or Sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is associated with a significant reduction in muscle strength and volume. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of moderate and high intensity resistance ...
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Aim: One of the most important and prevalent disorders in elderly people is age-related muscular atrophy or Sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is associated with a significant reduction in muscle strength and volume. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of moderate and high intensity resistance training on serum levels of myostatin and IGF-1 in elderly rats Method: thirty male Wistar rats (23 months old) were randomly divided into two experimental and control group including moderate intensity resistance training (n = 10), high intensity resistance training (n = 10) and the control group (n = 10). Resistance training included 8 weeks of climbing a ladder with high intensity (80% MVCC) and moderate intensity (60% of MVCC) and 5 days a week. After completing training, serum concentration of IGF-1 and myostatin were measured using the ELISA method. Results: Myostatin concentration in decreased in high (916.5±43.1) and moderate (958.8±36.9) intensity resistance groups and IGF-1 increases in high (156.3±15.5) and moderate (141.8±7.4) intensity resistance groups (p<0.05). Also, there was significant difference between the IGF-I levels in high and moderate resistance training (p=0.009). However, there was no significant difference in myostatin level between groups. Conclusion: It seems that resistance training with moderate and high intensity can be change the resting levels of factors associated with muscular atrophy in elderly rats. However, there id further need to evaluate in human participants.
A Abbasi; M Faramarzi; M Ghatreh Samani; E Bbanitalebi
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Aim: NLRP-3 Inflammasome is considered an indicator of chronic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) which can result in secretion of IL-1β from adipose tissue. Despite numerous investigations on the underlying activation mechanisms of NLRP-3 in pathogenesis of T2DM, less ...
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Aim: NLRP-3 Inflammasome is considered an indicator of chronic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) which can result in secretion of IL-1β from adipose tissue. Despite numerous investigations on the underlying activation mechanisms of NLRP-3 in pathogenesis of T2DM, less attention has been paid to the impact of exercise on NLRP-3. Method: Male stereptpzosin-induces diabetic rats (n=40) were randomly assigned to five groups (n=8): diabetic+ low intensity endurance training (DL), diabetic+ moderate intensity endurance training (DM), diabetic+ high intensity endurance training (DH), non-diabetic with no training(CON), and diabetic with no training(D). Eight weeks of running (four sessions per week) with different intensities were completed. Western blotting method was used to measure NLRP3. ELISA technique was used to assess serum levels of insulin and glucose. Results: Results showed that expression of NLRP-3 protein were significantly lower in endurance DM (P<0.05) and endurance DH (P<0.05) groups against DL group. Caspase-1 expression was significantly lower in DL (P=0.001), DM (P<0.05), and DH (P<0.05) compared with D group. However, no significant different was found between the training groups. Serum insulin level was significantly lower in endurance DH group compared with endurance DL group (P<0.05).In comparison with D group, significant reduction of serum glucose was observed in endurance DL group (P<0.05), endurance DM (P<0.05), and endurance DH (P<0.05). Conclusion: It appears that training with high and moderate intensities induced positive modulation in NLRP-3 expression as well as improved glycemic factors levels.
