Female Sprague-Dawley rats were made hypertensive by the two kidney/one clip Goldblatt procedure, while control animals were sham-operated. One week later, half of the animals were subjected to a moderate swimming exercise and the other half remained sedentary. Thus, four experimental groups, each consisting of 14 rats, were formed: control animals that were exercised or kept sedentary and corr...

Hedman, A. 2001. Muscle morphology and the insulin resistance syndrome. A population-based study of 70 year-old-men in Uppsala. Acta Univesitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1063. 58 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5083-0. Skeletal muscle accounts for the largest part of insulin-mediated glucose uptake. Insulin resistance (IR) is the main ...