When obese adults with type 2 diabetes exercise regularly, their muscle cells’ energy factories become longer and less round, which is a good thing—even if the usual control switches in the cell don’t change.

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1602-P: Exercise Training Reverses Skeletal Muscle DRP1 Hyperactivation and Improves Respiratory Capacity in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

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The study found that when obese adults with type 2 diabetes exercised regularly, their muscle cells’ energy factories (mitochondria) became longer and less round, which is a good thing—and this happened even though the usual control switches in the cell (PGC-1α and AMPK) didn’t change.

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1602-P: Exercise Training Reverses Skeletal Muscle DRP1 Hyperactivation and Improves Respiratory Capacity in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

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DOI: 10.2337/db24-1602-p

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