Editorial: Inter-organ crosstalk during exercise in health and disease: Extracellular vesicles as new kids on the block

Authors

Kenneth Verboven, Hasselt University
Ivan Jose Vechetti Jr, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-14-2023

Citation

Verboven K and Vechetti IJ (2023), Editorial: Inter-organ crosstalk during exercise in health and disease: Extracellular vesicles as new kids on the block. Front. Physiol. 14:1180972. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1180972

Comments

Open access.

Abstract

Within exercise physiology, the study of factors potentially mediating interorgan crosstalk during and after exercise is a fascinating field of research. As exercise activates a plethora of metabolic pathways in several tissues, organs and systems, examining the underlying biological mechanisms contributing to exercise related metabolic benefits is imperative. Since two decades, the skeletal muscle is known to secrete humoral factors into the circulation in response to exercise, originally described as “myokines” by Pedersen et al. (2003). These myokines are now well known and extensively studied in the field of exercise science (Pedersen and Febbraio, 2012). Interestingly, exercise also triggers other metabolic organs to release similar factors arising from the heart, liver, white and brown adipose tissue, and the nervous system (Chow et al., 2022). These “exerkines” (Safdar et al., 2016) have been recognized to comprise an extensive range of biologically active signalling molecules, including cytokines, lipids, metabolites and (noncoding) nucleic acids, as recently reviewed (Chow et al., 2022).