Title Exercise benefits the cardiac, autonomic and inflammatory responses to organophosphate toxicity.
Author Freire Machi, Jacqueline; Schmidt, Rodrigo; Salgueiro, Luis M; Fernandes Stoyell-Conti, Filipe; de Andrade Barboza, Catarina; Hernandez, Diana Rosa; Morris, Mariana
Journal Toxicol Rep Publication Year/Month 2019
PMID 31673494 PMCID PMC6816132
Affiliation + expend 1.Institute of Neuro-Immune Medicine, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic MediciNE, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.

The organophosphate, diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP), may impair cardiovascular, autonomic and immune function while exercise training is thougt to be restorative. Experiments determined effects of wheel exercise in C57B1 male mice, testing cardiovascular and autonomic function and characterization of the immunological profile. Sedentary (S) and exercise (ET) groups were treated with corticosterone (CORT) followed by injection of DFP. This model was associated with systolic and diastolic dysfunction in the S group, measured using echocardiography (ECHO). Chronic exercise ameliorated the cardiac deficit. Autonomic balance, accessed by heart rate variability (HRV), showed increased sympathetic and decreased parasympathetic modulation in S group. Autonomic balance in ET mice was not affected by DFP. Our DFP model resulted in mild neuroinflammation seen by increased IL5, IL12 and MIP2 in brain and plasma IL6 and IL1a. DFP had a negative impact on cardiac/autonomic function and inflammatory markers, effects reduced by exercise. Data suggest a beneficial effect of exercise training on the cardiovascular and autonomic responses to DFP/CORT.

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