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. 2020 Jul 31;14(2):256–270. doi: 10.1007/s12265-020-10057-w

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Effects of acute exercise on glucose uptake and insulin signaling. Acute exercise evokes an increase of glucose uptake which is time-dependently regulated by insulin-independent and insulin-dependent mechanisms. The exercise-induced enhanced insulin sensitivity is mediated by different pathways that work in parallel with the canonical insulin signaling cascade. AMPK: AMP-activated protein kinase; AS 160: AS 160 protein; GLUT4: insulin-responsive glucose transporter; IRS: insulin receptor substrates; PI3K: phosphoinositide 3-kinase