Exercise training is associated with changes in adipocyte size and lipid metabolism in older women: cross-sectional and longitudinal study
Marek Wilhelm, Terezie Čížková, Klára Daďová, Michal Koc, Jana Neubert, Ondřej Kuda, Jan Gojda, Lenka Rossmeislová, Michaela Šiklová · 2026
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Marek Wilhelm and colleagues published a 2026 study of how exercise changes fat tissue in older women, looking separately at lifelong activity and a short training block. The cross-sectional part compared 28 long-term physically active women with 29 sedentary peers, all between sixty-one and eighty. Another 23 women completed four months of combined exercise training. Fat samples were examined for cell size, fat-making capacity, gene activity, and lipid and protein profiles.
Both long-active and newly trained women had less fat-cell enlargement, a change the authors link to overall adiposity rather than a reshaped fat-making ability, left unchanged. Long-term activity raised the expression of beta-adrenergic receptors, the switches that let stress hormones trigger fat release, and very-long-chain fatty acid levels in step with fitness. The team frames these as candidate mechanisms connecting exercise to metabolic health in ageing, for confirmation in larger groups.
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| CREATOR | Marek Wilhelm, Terezie Čížková, Klára Daďová, Michal Koc, Jana Neubert, Ondřej Kuda, Jan Gojda, Lenka Rossmeislová, Michaela Šiklová |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48092 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |