ArticleCell2020
Molecular Choreography of Acute Exercise.
Article in Cell, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 270 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
270 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 455 citations in OpenAlex.
- Exercise modalities and dosages on glycated haemoglobin and exerkines in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review with pairwise, network, and dose-response meta-analyses.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2026Pooled it
- Multi-omics time-series analysis in microbiome research: a systematic review.Briefings in bioinformatics · 2025Pooled it
- The anti-inflammatory effects of exercise on autoimmune diseases: A 20-year systematic review.Journal of sport and health science · 2024Pooled it
- Elucidating regulatory processes of intense physical activity by multi-omics analysis.Military Medical Research · 2023Pooled it
- Exercise training-induced changes in exerkine concentrations may be relevant to the metabolic control of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Journal of sport and health science · 2023Pooled it
- Antioxidants Supplementation During Exercise: Friends or Enemies for Cardiovascular Homeostasis?Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of exercise of different intensities on withdrawal symptoms among people with substance use disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Pooled it
- Prenatal exercise interventions result in subtle changes in the human breast milk metabolome and lipidome 7-14 days postpartum: exploratory analyses of the FitMum randomized controlled trial.International breastfeeding journal · 2026Trial
- The anti-obesogenic metabolite, Lac-Phe, is elevated by metformin treatment in prostate cancer patients.EMBO molecular medicine · 2026Trial
- Metabolomic profiling of intensity-dependent responses to acute exercise in healthy humans.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Trial
- Dynamic Metabolic Changes Driven by Exercise Intensity in Acute Swimming.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2025Trial
- An adaptive AI-based virtual reality sports system for adolescents with excess body weight: a randomized controlled trial.Nature medicine · 2025Trial
- Exercise intensity determines circulating levels of Lac-Phe and other exerkines: a randomized crossover trial.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2025Trial
- Circulatory lipid signature in response to short-term testosterone gel treatment of healthy young females.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Multi-omics uncovers immune-modulatory molecules in plasma contributing to resistance exercise-ameliorated locomotor disability after incomplete spinal cord injury.Genome medicine · 2025Trial
- Effects of exercise on whole-blood transcriptome profile in children with overweight/obesity.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2024Trial
- Supplementation with food-derived oligopeptides promotes lipid metabolism in young male cyclists: a randomized controlled crossover trial.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2023Trial
- Dynamic transcriptomic responses to divergent acute exercise stimuli in young adults.Physiological genomics · 2023Trial
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- Blood metabolic profiling associated with a short-term intensive training period in elite male water polo athletes: an exploratory metabolomics study.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026Article
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32 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Acute physical activity leads to several changes in metabolic, cardiovascular, and immune pathways. Although studies have examined selected changes in these pathways, the system-wide molecular response to an acute bout of exercise has not been fully characterized. We performed longitudinal multi-omic profiling of plasma and peripheral blood mononuclear cells including metabolome, lipidome, immunome, proteome, and transcriptome from 36 well-characterized volunteers, before and after a controlled bout of symptom-limited exercise. Time-series analysis revealed thousands of molecular changes and an orchestrated choreography of biological processes involving energy metabolism, oxidative stress, inflammation, tissue repair, and growth factor response, as well as regulatory pathways. Most of these processes were dampened and some were reversed in insulin-resistant participants. Finally, we discovered biological pathways involved in cardiopulmonary exercise response and developed prediction models revealing potential resting blood-based biomarkers of peak oxygen consumption.
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