TABLE 1.

Myokines and type of exercise that induce their secretion in rodents and humans.

Myokine	Type of exercise	Species	References
Irisin	Aerobic/Resistance	Rodents/Human	Wrann et al., 2013; Huh et al., 2015; Tsuchiya et al., 2015; Tine Kartinah et al., 2018
Fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF21)	Aerobic/Resistance	Rodents/Human	Kim et al., 2013; Kim and Song, 2017
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)	Aerobic/Resistance	Rodents/Human	Lloyd et al., 2003; Gavin et al., 2007; Delavar et al., 2014
Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15)	Aerobic	Human	Kleinert et al., 2018
Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)	Aerobic/Resistance	Rodents/Human	Jimenez-Maldonado et al., 2014; Church et al., 2016; Kim et al., 2020; Nilsson et al., 2020
Decorin	Aerobic/Resistance	Rodents/Human	Kanzleiter et al., 2014; Marqueti et al., 2018
Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF)	Aerobic/Resistance	Rodents/Human	Broholm and Pedersen, 2010
Interleukin-6 (IL-6)	Aerobic/Resistance	Rodents/Human	Trenerry et al., 2011; Chowdhury et al., 2020
Interleukin-15 (IL-15)	Aerobic/Resistance	Rodents/Human	Quinn and Anderson, 2011
Meteorin-like (Metrnl)	Aerobic	Rodents/Human	Rao et al., 2014; Bae, 2018
Myonectin	Aerobic	Rodents/Human	Otaka et al., 2018; Pourranjbar et al., 2018