the effect of sixweeks of high intensity interval training on enos and pgc-1α gene expression in the heart tissue of male obese rats

Background: nowadays, obesity can affect heart function and induced atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, and heart arrhythmia, which has become a major problem for global health. objectives: the present study aimed to review the effect of six weeks of highintensity interval training (hiit) on gene expression levels of pgc1α and enos in the heart tissue of obese male rats. methods: in this experimental study, 14 highfat diet (hfd)induced obese rats were divided into two groups of control and training. also, 7 rats were placed in a nonobese control group to investigate the effects of obesity on research variables. during six weeks, rats in the training group performed hiit three days per week. after six weeks, all rats were sacrificed, and their heart tissue was removed to measure the pgc1α and enos gene expression. we used oneway anova with tukey’s post hoc tests (p ≤ 0.05) for statistical analysis. results: hfd significantly decreased pgc1α (p = 0.04) and enos (p = 0.001) gene expression, but hiit significantly increased pgc1α (p = 001) and enos (p = 0.001) gene expression. conclusions: hiit seems to improve cardiac gene expression levels of pgc1α and enos of male obese rats.