As both β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 represent very sensitive marker of platelet activation, these findings represent strong evidence that exercise activates platelets, although a small number of studies reported unchanged [ 26, 63] or decreased [ 16] levels of β-thromboglobulin after exercise.
The researchers speculate that exercise activates certain metabolic pathways that undo the damage of a high-fat diet, even if that diet continues.
Exercise activates countless neurons, which generate, receive and interpret repeated, rapid-fire messages from the nervous system, coordinating muscle contractions, vision, balance, organ function and all of the complex interactions of bodily systems that allow you to take one step, then another.
Aerobic exercise activates and maintains the sensorimotor network while coordination exercise activates and maintains the visual-spatial network.
That didn't surprise them because scientists know that exercise activates genes associated with repair and inflammation.
Recent research shows that endurance exercise activates the endocannabinoid system, producing what we know as "runner's high", in a similar way to THC.
As first reported by Vanderwolf in 1969 [30], voluntary exercise activates a persistent firing pattern (known as theta-rhythm) in the rat hippocampus, and this firing pattern is dependent on cholinergic and GABAergic neurons.
The exercise activated genes CaMKIIβ and TIE1 related positively to weight-loss across muscle groups, indicating that this cachexia signature is not simply due to patient inactivity.
Because exercise activates autophagy and counteracts most age-related characteristics, including the decline of muscle mass (Zampieri et al., 2014), we tested whether long-life regular exercise in humans was able to prevent the reduction of these autophagy markers.
