title: Acute exercise effect on postabsorptive serum leptin.
abstract: We postulated that high circulating cortisol levels during intense exercise would lead to increased serum leptin concentrations. Young, lean men ate a small meal and then exercised on a cycle ergometer for 41 min or rested on a control day. Serum leptin concentration was 10% greater during exercise than in the control condition (P < 0.05). Directly after exercise, serum leptin dropped to approximately 10% less than the control level (P < 0.05) but had recovered to the nonexercised level after approximately 2 h of recovery. Rapid exercise effects on circulating leptin were related to changes in hemoconcentration rather than changes in leptin mass. When serum leptin was normalized to serum protein, leptin increased by 10% in the exercise condition compared with control by the end of recovery (P < 0.05). Although exercise increased serum cortisol concentration threefold, there was no relation between differences in cortisol and exercise vs. control differences in normalized leptin. The increased leptin mass after exercise may have been related to greater plasma glucose concentration during recovery after exercise compared with the control condition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. jfisher@im.wustl.edu
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Van Pelt
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zinder
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Landt
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Kohrt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019540:Area Under Curve; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D015992:Body Mass Index; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005215:Fasting; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified / Q000097:blood; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D006854:Hydrocortisone / Q000097:blood; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D007408:Intestinal Absorption / Q000502:physiology*; D020738:Leptin / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D005082:Physical Exertion / Q000502:physiology*; D019518:Postprandial Period / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D005230:Fatty Acids, Nonesterified; D007328:Insulin; D020738:Leptin; D006854:Hydrocortisone