This study investigated the effect of food restriction combine with endurance exercise training on lipogenic enzymes activities and resting energy expenditure in female rats. Fourty Sprague-Dawley female rats 10 wk of age were grouped as CN-SED, CN-EX...
This study investigated the effect of food restriction combine with endurance exercise training on lipogenic enzymes activities and resting energy expenditure in female rats. Fourty Sprague-Dawley female rats 10 wk of age were grouped as CN-SED, CN-EX, FR-SED, and FR-EX in the present study. The CN continued to receive the average amount of meal and water ad libitum. FR was restricted 70% of CN intake. Exercise training was gradually increased as 8% incline, 28 m/min, 30 min/d, and 5d/wk for 9 wks. Resting energy expenditure (REE), serum glucose, free fatty acid (FFA), insulin and lipogenic enzymes, malic enzyme (ME), glucose-6- phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activities, were analyzed. Body fat accumulation in abdomen was significantly lower in FR than CN (p<.05). Carcass fat showed lower accumulation in FR than CN (p<.05). REE during 6 h of pre and postprandial was shown in Fig. 3. FR-SED was significantly lower energy expenditure 2-4 h after the meal (p<.05). CN-EX was significantly higher 1 h after the meal than FR-SED (P<.05). FR and/or exercise training affected preprandial REE. Lipogenic enzymes, G6PD, ME, were significantly higher in FR-EX than the other groups (p<.05). This result suggesting that FR and/or exercise training increased lipogenic enzyme activity, especially with exercise training, even though body fat was reduced.