Mr. Naoki Horii, is a Graduate Student in Faculty of Sports and Health Science of Ritsumeikan University, and his research manuscript was accepted and published in FASEB J, which collaborated with Professor Motoyuki Iemitsu, Assistant Professor Masataka Uchida and Shumpei Fujie and Senior researcher in Research Organization of Science and Technology Natsuki Hasegawa. The study revealed that acute resistance exercise-induced increase in muscle sex steroid hormones contribute to the activation of muscle protein synthesis (Akt/mTOR/p70S6K) and glucose uptake (Akt/AS160/GLUT4) signaling pathways in type 2 diabetic rats.

Horii N, Hasegawa N, Fujie S, Uchida M, Iemitsu M. Resistance exercise-induced increase in muscle 5α-dihydrotestosterone contributes to the activation of muscle Akt/mTOR/p70S6K- and Akt/AS160/GLUT4-signaling pathways in type 2 diabetic rats. (2020) FASEB J. 34: 11047-11057.

 https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj.201903223RR