Effect of Endurance Conditioning on Insulin-mediated Glucose Clearance in Dogs

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Michael S DavisKatherine K Williamson

Abstract

Physical activity has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity in subjects with insulin resistance, but the effect of athletic conditioning on subjects with normal insulin sensitivity has received less scrutiny. Because strenuous exercise can be limited by the availability of substrates, it is reasonable to hypothesize that conditioning would increase the capacity for muscle uptake of substrates like glucose and to the extent that improvement in this process would include upregulation of the portions of the glucose uptake pathway in muscle, this increased capacity would also be reflected in insulin sensitivity. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that conditioning for endurance exercise would result in increased insulin sensitivity using elite racing sled dogs. A frequent-sampled intravenous glucose tolerance test was performed on these dogs before and after a full 7-month season of conditioning in preparation for a 1600-km race. Compared with the results in unconditioned dogs, conditioned dogs rapidly cleared the intravenous glucose bolus through increases in both glucose mediated (7.6%·min ± 3.4%·min vs 3.0%·min ± 2.2%·min, P = 0.008) and insulin-mediated (36.3 ± 18.4 × 10 L·min·mU vs 11.5 ± 8.0 × 10 L·min·mU, P = 0.007) mec...Continue Reading

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Mar 5, 2021·Journal of Applied Physiology·Michael S Davis, Montana R Barrett
Apr 20, 2021·Integrative and Comparative Biology·Michael S Davis

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