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Exerkines in health, resilience and disease

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posted on 2022-03-23, 09:55 authored by Lisa S Chow, Robert E Gerszten, Joan M Taylor, Bente K Pedersen, Henriette van Praag, Scott Trappe, Mark A Febbraio, Zorina S Galis, Yunling Gao, Jacob M Haus, Ian R Lanza, Carl J Lavie, Chih-Hao Lee, Alejandro Lucia, Cedric Moro, Ambarish Pandey, Jeremy M Robbins, Kristin I Stanford, Alice ThackrayAlice Thackray, Saul Villeda, Matthew J Watt, Ashley Xia, Juleen R Zierath, Bret H Goodpaster, Michael P Snyder
The health benefits of exercise are well-recognized and are observed across multiple organ systems. These beneficial effects enhance overall resilience, healthspan and longevity. The molecular mechanisms that underlie the beneficial effects of exercise, however, remain poorly understood. Since the discovery in 2000 that muscle contraction releases IL-6, the number of exercise-associated signalling molecules that have been identified has multiplied. Exerkines are defined as signalling moieties released in response to acute and/or chronic exercise, which exert their effects through endocrine, paracrine and/or autocrine pathways. A multitude of organs, cells and tissues release these factors, including skeletal muscle (myokines), the heart (cardiokines), liver (hepatokines), white adipose tissue (adipokines), brown adipose tissue (baptokines) and neurons (neurokines). Exerkines have potential roles in improving cardiovascular, metabolic, immune and neurological health. As such, exerkines have potential for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity, and possibly in the facilitation of healthy ageing. This Review summarizes the importance and current state of exerkine research, prevailing challenges and future directions.

Funding

The workshop that set the foundation for this Review article was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH). The listed authors acknowledge the support of the following grants. L.S.C.: NIH grant R01DK098203; B.H.G.: NIH grant U01AR071133; A.L.: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and Fondos FEDER (PI18/00139); C.M.: European Federation of the Study of Diabetes/MSD, Occitanie Region/FEDER funds (DIABKINES, MP0021755 and Enterosys); B.K.P.: TrygFonden for the Centre for PA Research (CFAS); A.P.: Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholarship, Gilead Sciences Research Scholar Program, NIH National Institute of Aging GEMSSTAR grant (1R03AG067960-01), and Applied Therapeutics; J.M.R.: NIH grant HL150327-01A1; H.v.P.: NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH IRP and the FDOH Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research program; K.I.S.: NIH grants R01-HL138738 and R01-AG060542; A.E.T.: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre; J.M.T.: NIH grant 1R01HL142879; S.T.: NIH grants U01AR071133; J.R.Z.: Swedish Research Council for Sport Science (P2018-0097), Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) (2015-00165), and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen (NNF18CC0034900); M.P.S.: NIH grants U24DK112348 and U54DK102556.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volume

18

Issue

5

Pages

273-289

Publisher

Springer Nature

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© Springer Nature Limited

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This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-022-00641-2

Acceptance date

2022-01-27

Publication date

2022-03-18

Copyright date

2022

ISSN

1759-5029

eISSN

1759-5037

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Alice Thackray. Deposit date: 22 March 2022

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