Simultaneous Effect of Resistance Training and Stem Cell Injection on Blood Glucose Levels and Bax and Bcl2 Protein Expression from Markers of Skeletal Muscle Apoptosis in STZ-Induced Diabetic Male Rats

Background: Type 1 diabetes is a disorder caused by autoimmune destruction of pancreatic insulin-producing cells. This induction of autoimmunity may be due to genetic and environmental factors. Bax and Bcl2 proteins play an important role in the process of apoptosis. Methods: In this study, 30 male Wistar rats weighting approximately 200±20gr were randomly selected from available rats in lab (500). Subjects after 2 weeks of familiarity with the environment were randomly divided into 5 groups of 6, including (diabetes + injection, exercise) and (diabetes + exercise) and (diabetes + injection) and (diabetes control to control the passage of time) and (basic diabetes to Defaults) under the same laboratory conditions and developed type 1 diabetes by intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin (stz) (60 mg / kg). Rats in the diabetic group and the diabetic group + stem cell injection had a total of 17 sessions of resistance training for 5 weeks. Results: The results of the present study showed that there was no significant difference between the mean of Bax and Bcl2 in the resistance training group with simultaneous injection of stem cells and the training group. Conclusion: The results of our study showed that performing 17 sessions of resistance training alone with stem cell injection was effective on the expression of Bax protein and Bcl2, but there was no significant difference between the effect of training alone and training with stem cells.