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. 2012 Oct 10;63(1):1–5. doi: 10.1007/s12576-012-0237-4

Table 2.

Influence of (a) physical training and (b) acute physical exercise on peroxiredoxin (PRDX) contents

Study Training program/ physical activity Subjects Cells/ cellular compartments PRDX system
Physical training
 Moghaddam et al. [20] 3 months, 3 times a week, cycling (25–50 min, 75 % HRmax) Type 2 diabetic men (n = 6) Erythrocytes

PRDX1 ↔

PRDX2 ↑

 Brinkmann et al. [21] 3 months, twice a week, cycling (25–50 min, HR: corresponding to 2 mmol/l blood lactate concentration) or whole body strength training (30–75 % 1-RM) Type 2 diabetic men (n = 16) Skeletal muscle cells, musculus vastus lateralis

PRDX1 ↔

PRDX2 ↔

PRDX3 ↔

PRDX4 ↔

PRDX5 ↑

PRDX6 ↔

 Kavazis et al. [22] 10 days, daily, treadmill running (10–60 min, 30 m/min, 0° inclination, 70 % maximal oxygen consumption) Male Sprague–Dawley rats (n = 8) Isolated mitochondria from heart muscle cells
subsarcolemmal PRDX3 ↑
intermyofibrillar PRDX3 ↔
 Richters et al. [23] 2 months, 5 times a week, treadmill running (1 h, 15 m/min, 5° inclination) Male SOD2-knock-out-mices (n = 14) Heart muscle cells

PRDX1 ↑

PRDX2 ↓

PRDX3 ↑

PRDX4 ↑

PRDX5 ↔

PRDX6 ↔

Acute physical exercise
 Brinkmann et al. [24] WHO cycling step test to physical exhaustion (25 W + 25 W every 2 min) Type 2 diabetic men (n = 15) Erythrocytes PRDX-SO2–3
Non-diabetic men (n = 12) PRDX-SO2–3

HR max maximal heart rate, 1-RM 1-repetition maximum, PRDX-SO 2–3 overoxidized peroxiredoxins, SOD superoxide dismutase, WHO World Health Organization