(1.School of Physical Education,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China;2. Sports Science Research Institute of Guangdong Province,Guangzhou 510100,China) Abstract: By using palmitic acid to incubate C2C12 cells, the authors established a model of lipid rich insulin resisting skeletal muscle cells, so as to observe the effects of contraction triggered by a certain intensity of electric stimulation on the cells’ sugar metabolism. The authors used different gradient concentrations of palmitic acid to incubate 5d differen-tiated C2C12 cells for 16h, measured glucose remaining amount and cell activity in the cell culture fluid of various groups, selected an appropriate palmitic acid concentration to establish a model of insulin resisting the cells, which was induced by such a concentration, then divided the experiment into 4 groups: a control group (C), an electric stimulation group (EPS), a palmitic acid group (PA), and an electric stimulation + palmitic acid group (EPS+PA ), applied an inten-sity of (15 V, 30 ms, 2 Hz) of electric stimulation for 60min, collected the samples and measured glucose remaining amount, AMPK-α2 mRNA and GLUT4 protein expression levels in the cell culture fluid, and revealed the following findings: 1) Comparing the group incubated with 0.5 mmol/L palmitic acid for 16 h with group C, LDH and MTT had no significant change (P>0.05), glucose remaining amount increased significantly (P<0.05), after adding insulin stimu-lation, glucose remaining amount had no significant difference as compared with that before stimulation (P>0.05); 2) Comparing group PA with group C, glucose remaining amount increased significantly (P<0.05), AMPK-α2 gene ex-pression decreased significantly (P<0.05), total GLUT4 protein and membrane GLUT4 protein expression levels de-creased significantly (P<0.05); 3) Comparing group EPS+PA with group PA, glucose remaining amount decreased sig-nificantly (P<0.05), AMPK-α2 gene expression increased significantly (P<0.05), myotube membrane GLUT4 protein expression level increased very significantly (P<0.01), total GLUT4 protein content had no significant change (P>0.05), although increased somewhat. The said findings indicate the followings: using palmitic acid (0.5 mmol/L) to incubate 5 d differentiated C2C12 cells for 16 h can cause the occurrence of resistance of their lipid rich insulin; an in-tensity of (15 V, 30 ms, 2 Hz) of electric stimulation for 60min can promote insulin resisting the glucose absorption by skeletal muscle cells, increase AMPK-α2 mRNA and GLUT4 protein expression, thus help improving lipid rich insulin resisting the sugar metabolism of skeletal muscle cells. Key words: sports biochemistry;skeletal muscle cell;palmitic acid;insulin resistance;electric stimulation;glucose metabolism;mouse |