Metabolic Adaptations in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle during Acute and Chronic Exercise, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Exercise training is known to facilitate the management of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease, as well as several musculoskeletal disorders. Although the positive health benefits of exercise are well-known, the precise molecular adaptations that exercise elicits in cardiac and skeletal muscle are still not fully understood, particularly in diseased populations. This knowledge gap exists, in part, due to a reliance on study populations made up of predominantly young male athletes, and the usage of exercise training protocols that vary in intensity and duration. Therefore, more research that bridges the gap between population differences and protocol variation is warranted to elucidate the metabolic adaptations that result from exercise.  

This Special Issue of Metabolites will be dedicated to publishing original articles and reviews that focus on the metabolic adaptations that occur in cardiac and skeletal muscle in response to acute or chronic exercise in both healthy and diseased populations. It is intended to be an extension of the first volume. Studies and articles that investigate the appropriate “exercise prescription” (i.e., frequency, intensity, duration) that modifies health and disease will be of importance. In addition, papers that address differences in sex, race/ethnicity, and aging will be of particular interest.

Dr. Stephen C. Kolwicz
Guest Editor

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• exercise training
• exercise metabolism
• lipids
• glucose
• ketone bodies
• insulin signaling
• metabolic remodeling
• sex differences
• exercise and aging
• exercise physiology