title: Preischemic exercise reduces brain damage by ameliorating metabolic disorder in ischemia/reperfusion injury.
abstract: Physical exercise preconditioning is known to ameliorate stroke-induced injury. In addition to several other mechanisms, the beneficial effect of preischemic exercise following stroke is due to an upregulated capacity to maintain energy supplies. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were used in exercise and control groups. After 1-3 weeks of exercise, several enzymes were analyzed as a gauge of the direct effect of physical exercise on cerebral metabolism. As a measure of metabolic capacity, an ADP/ATP ratio was obtained. Glucose transporters (GLUT1 and GLUT3) were monitored to assess glucose influx, and phosphofructokinase (PFK) was measured to determine the rate of glycolysis. Hypoxia-induced factor-1α (HIF-1α) and 5'AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) levels were also determined. These same analyses were performed on preconditioned and control rats following an ischemic/reperfusion (I/R) insult. Our results show that GLUT1, GLUT3, PFK, AMPK, and HIF-1α were all increased following 3 weeks of exercise training. In addition, the ADP/ATP ratio was chronically elevated during these 3 weeks. After I/R injury, HIF-1α and AMPK were significantly higher in exercised rats. The ADP/ATP ratio was reduced in preconditioned rats in the acute phase after stroke, suggesting a lower level of metabolic disorder. GLUT1 and GLUT3 were also increased in the acute phase in exercise rats, indicating that these rats were better able to increase rates of metabolism immediately after ischemic injury. In addition, PFK expression was increased in exercise rats showing an enhanced glycolysis resulting from exercise preconditioning. Altogether, exercise preconditioning increased the rates of glucose metabolism, allowing a more rapid and more substantial increase in ATP production following stroke.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dornbos
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zwagerman
authors.forename: Miao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Jamie Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Changya
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: Fatema
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Esmail
authors.forename: Chaitanya
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sikharam
authors.forename: Xiaokun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Geng
authors.forename: Murali
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guthikonda
authors.forename: Yuchuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ding
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D008297:Male; D010805:Physical Conditioning, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000517:prevention & control; D020521:Stroke / Q000378:metabolism*