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When diabetic rats get regular cardio exercise, their heart muscle becomes more flexible and less stiff because they make more of a spring-like protein (titin) and less of the scar-like proteins (collagen and TGFβ1), which helps their hearts fill with blood better.
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The study showed that when diabetic rats did aerobic exercise like running, their heart muscles became more flexible because they made more titin and less stiff collagen, which helped their hearts pump blood better between beats.
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