ArticleMetabolites2021
Lifelong Aerobic Exercise Alleviates Sarcopenia by Activating Autophagy and Inhibiting Protein Degradation via the AMPK/PGC-1α Signaling Pathway.
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Association between Dietary Inflammatory Index and Aging Biomarkers/Conditions: A Systematic Review and Dose-response Meta-analysis.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2023Pooled it
- A Preclinical Systematic Review of the Effects of Chronic Exercise on Autophagy-Related Proteins in Aging Skeletal Muscle.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
- Adding Tat-Beclin1 to an endurance training program promotes additive improvements in physical function in aged male mice.Physiological reports · 2026Article
- Exercise Regulates Mitochondrial Quality Control: Maintenance and Remodeling of Skeletal Muscle Homeostasis.Biology · 2026Review
- The Central Role of the AMPK/SIRT1/PGC-1α Signaling Axis in Skeletal Muscle Physiology and Pathology and Its Targeted Therapeutic Strategies.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Gan-Mai-Da-Zao-Tang attenuates age-induced skeletal muscle wasting and improves mitochondrial function in mice.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2026Article
- Exploring the effects of lifelong aerobic exercise on early skeletal muscle remodeling between 8 and 14 months in the rat.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2026Article
- Exercise preconditioning prevents immobilization-induced skeletal muscle atrophy by activating Prmt1-p38/ATF2-Sesn1 signaling axis in C57BL/6J mice.Sports medicine and health science · 2026Article
- Exercise-mediated regulation of mitochondrial dynamics in aging muscle: implications for mitochondrial diseases.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2026Review
- Transcriptomic characterization of the aberrant alternative splicing in skeletal muscles of sarcopenia patients.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Astaxanthin alleviates autophagy, inflammation, and oxidative stress in ventilator-associated lung injury rats by inhibiting MAPK/ERK1/2 pathway.Acta cirurgica brasileira · 2026Article
- Exercise, Exerkines, and Sarcopenia.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2026Review
- Can Myokines Serve as Supporters of Muscle-Brain Connectivity in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes? Potential of Exercise and Nutrition Interventions.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Exercise-driven cellular autophagy: A bridge to systematic wellness.Journal of advanced research · 2025Review
- Aerobic Exercise Delays Age-Related Sarcopenia in Mice via Alleviating Imbalance in Mitochondrial Quality Control.Metabolites · 2025Article
- Effects of aging and resistance exercise on muscle strength, physiological properties, longevity proteins, and telomere length in SAMP8 mice.Biogerontology · 2025Article
- Low-Magnitude High-Frequency Vibration Attenuates Sarcopenia by Modulating Mitochondrial Quality Control via Inhibiting miR-378.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2025Article
- Exerkines and Sarcopenia: Unveiling the Mechanism Behind Exercise-Induced Mitochondrial Homeostasis.Metabolites · 2025Review
- Proteomic analysis confirmed that the occurrence of diabetic sarcopenia is related to autophagy and apoptosis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Mitochondrial dysfunction in age-related sarcopenia: mechanistic insights, diagnostic advances, and therapeutic prospects.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Sarcopenia is an aging-induced syndrome characterized by a progressive reduction of skeletal muscle mass and strength. Increasing evidence has attested that appropriate and scientific exercise could induce autophagy or optimize the functional status of autophagy, which plays a critical role in senescent muscular dystrophy. As a publicly recognized strategy for extending lifespan and improving the health of the elderly, the underlying mechanisms of lifelong regular aerobic exercise for the prevention of sarcopenia have not been fully elucidated. To explore the role of lifelong aerobic exercise in the beneficial regulation of autophagic signaling pathways in senescent skeletal muscle, the natural aging mice were used as the sarcopenia model and subjected to lifelong treadmill running to evaluate corresponding parameters related to skeletal muscle atrophy and autophagic signaling pathways. Compared with the young control mice, the aged mice showed a significant reduction in skeletal muscle mass, gastrocnemius muscle weight/body weight (GMW/BW) ratio, and cross-sectional areas (CSA) of skeletal muscle fibers (
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