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Hesketh, K, Shepherd, SO, Strauss, JA, Low, DA, Cooper, RG, Wagenmakers, AJM and Cocks, MS (2019) Passive Heat Therapy in Sedentary Humans Increases Skeletal Muscle Capillarisation and eNOS Content but Not Mitochondrial Density or GLUT4 Content. AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 317 (1). H114-H123. ISSN 0363-6135
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Abstract
Passive heat therapy (PHT) has been proposed as an alternative intervention to traditional moderate intensity continous training (MICT) in individuals who are unable or unwilling to exercise. This study aimed to make the first comparison of the effect of PHT and MICT on 1) skeletal muscle capillarisation and endothelial specific eNOS content and 2) mitochondrial density, GLUT4 and IMTG content. Twenty young sedentary males (21±1years, BMI 25±1kg.m-2) were allocated to either 6 weeks of PHT (n=10; 40-50min at 40°C in a heat chamber, 3x/wk) or MICT (n=10; time matched cycling at ~65% VO2peak). Muscle biopsies were taken from the vastus lateralis muscle pre- and post-training. Immunofluorescence microscopy was used to assess changes in skeletal muscle mitochondrial density, GLUT4 and IMTG content, capillarisation and endothelial specific eNOS content. VO2peak and whole body insulin sensitivity were also assessed. PHT and MICT both increased capillary density and capillary-fibre perimeter exchange index (P<0.05), and endothelial specific eNOS content (P<0.05). However, unlike MICT (P<0.05) PHT did not increase mitochondrial density (P=0.443), GLUT4 (P=0.217) or IMTG content (P=0.957). Both intervention improved aerobic capacity and whole body insulin sensitivity (P<0.05). 6 weeks PHT in young sedentary males increases skeletal muscle capillarisation and eNOS content to a similar extent as MICT, however, unlike MICT PHT does not affect skeletal muscle mitochondrial density, GLUT4 or IMTG content.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0606 Physiology, 1116 Medical Physiology |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QP Physiology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine |
| Divisions: | Sport & Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | American Physiological Society |
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| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2019 08:41 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 09:21 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1152/ajpheart.00816.2018 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10765 |
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