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. 2023 Jun 15;10:1154872. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2023.1154872

TABLE 2.

Effects of physical exercise on circulating extracellular vesicles in rodents.

Study Sample Physical exercise Extracellular vesicles
Barcellos et al. (2020) Male Wistar rats (2- and 22-month-old) Forced treadmill running at 60% of VO2max, Climbing ladder of 85° inclination, and acrobatic exercise, combined. (6 min of aerobic training, 6 min of acrobatic training and 6 min of resistance training) ⇑ BDNF, IL-1β, CD63 in EVs only from aerobic exercise aged rats. ß IL-1β in EVs from acrobatic and combined exercise adult rats
Duration: 20 min x 3x/week x 12 weeks
Type: Aerobic, Resistance, Acrobatic
Ma et al. (2018) Male C57BL/6J mice (8–10-week-old) Forced treadmill training at low intensity at 5 m.min-1 or moderate intensity at 10  m min-1 for 60 min/d, 5 days/week ⇑ 2-fold, and 4-fold increase in endothelial progenitor derived exosomes in low intensity and moderate intensity exercise
Duration: 60 min/d x 5 days/week x 4 weeks
Type: Aerobic
Bertoldi et al. (2018) Male Wistar rats (3-, 21-, and 26-month-old) Moderate aerobic forced treadmill exercise ⇑ 10% CD63 levels 18 h Post-Exercise
Duration: 20 min/day x 2 weeks
Type: Aerobic
Bei et al. (2017) Male C57BL/6J mice (8-week-old) Swimming (Day 1: 5 min twice a day, increase by 10 per day until 90 min) ⇑ 1.85-fold NTA in serum EVs
Duration: Incremental until 90 min, 2x/day x 3 weeks
Type: Aerobic
Castaño et al. (2020) Male C57BL/6J mice (15-week-old) High intensity interval training (incremental until exhaustion) ⇑ miR-133a, miR-133b, and miR-206 in circulating exosomes
Duration: 5 weeks
Type: Anaerobic