Exercise training remodels human skeletal muscle mitochondrial fission and fusion machinery towards a pro-elongation phenotype.
Christopher L AxelrodCiarán E FealyAnny MulyaJohn P KirwanPublished in: Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) (2018)
Exercise training alters the expression of mitochondrial fusion and fission proteins, promoting a more fused, tubular network. These changes may contribute to the improvements in insulin sensitivity and substrate utilization that are observed after exercise training.