Abstract
AimsHeat shock protein 27 regulates homeostasis of skeletal and cardiac muscle proteins in various stressful states including diabetes and exercise. Aerobic exercise can inhibit or ameliorate cardiac structural abnormality and dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of HSP27 in aerobic exercise improving cardiac diastolic dysfunction in type 2 diabetic rats. MethodsForty male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into the following groups: control, control + aerobic exercise, diabetic, and diabetic + aerobic exercise. Diabetes was induced by feeding with a high-fat high-sugar diet for 7-weeks followed by a single intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin (30 mg/kg) in male rats. Moderate aerobic exercise training was performed on a treadmill for 8 weeks after induction of diabetes. Key findingsAerobic exercise increased left ventricular end-diastolic internal diameter, left ventricular end-diastolic volume, myocardial HSP27 protein expression, HSP27-S82 phosphorylation levels, pHSP27-titin binding and improved cardiac muscle fibre alignment in diabetic rats. SignificanceOur study indicates that moderate aerobic exercise increases HSP27 activation, improves cardiomyocyte fibre alignment and restores cardiac diastolic function.
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