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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Diabetes Metab. 2015 Dec 30;6(12):634. doi: 10.4172/2155-156.1000634

Figure 4. Voluntary exercise during pregnancy increased insulin stimulated Akt phosphorylation in adipose tissue from mice on a high fat diet.

Figure 4

Late in pregnancy, mice were injected with saline or insulin, and tissues were collected for in vitro analyses. (A) There were no differences between groups in basal phosphorylated Akt levels in adipose tissue. (B) Following insulin stimulation, phosphorylated Akt adipose tissue levels were significantly increased in the exercise HFD dams compared to control HFD dams. There were no differences between the two groups in basal (C) or insulin stimulated (D) skeletal muscle levels of phosphorylated Akt. #P < 0.05 compared to control HFD; n = 3 for control (c) HFD and n = 3 for exercise (ex) HFD in A – D. Error bars indicate s.e.m.