Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

No evidence of brown adipose tissue activation after 24 weeks of supervised exercise training in young sedentary adults in the ACTIBATE randomized controlled trial

  • Borja Martinez-Tellez,
  • Guillermo Sanchez-Delgado,
  • Francisco M. Acosta,
  • Juan M. A. Alcantara,
  • Francisco J. Amaro-Gahete,
  • Wendy D. Martinez-Avila,
  • Elisa Merchan-Ramirez,
  • Victoria Muñoz-Hernandez,
  • Francisco J. Osuna-Prieto,
  • Lucas Jurado-Fasoli,
  • Huiwen Xu,
  • Lourdes Ortiz-Alvarez,
  • María J. Arias-Tellez,
  • Andrea Mendez-Gutierrez,
  • Idoia Labayen,
  • Francisco B. Ortega,
  • Milena Schönke,
  • Patrick C. N. Rensen,
  • Concepción M. Aguilera,
  • José M. Llamas-Elvira,
  • Ángel Gil,
  • Jonatan R. Ruiz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32502-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Exercise modulates brown adipose tissue (BAT) metabolism in murine models. Here the authors report that there is no evidence that 24 weeks of supervised exercise training modulates BAT volume or function in young sedentary adults in the ACTIBATE randomized controlled trial.