Introduction: The clinical studies have shown that the myostatin gene expression and its serum density occur more frequently in heart patients than in healthy individuals. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of 8-week resistance and aerobic exercise on the myostatin and follistatin gene expression of myocardium muscle of healthy male Wistar rats. Methods: In this experimen...

Objective: Exercise is a risk factor for infertility in women. However, research on the effects of different intensities exercise folliculogenesis has not yielded clear results. This study was conducted to analyze differences intensity mice. Methods: Nineteen female BALB/c mice (age, 3–4 months; weight, 13–25 g) were randomly divided into four groups: control, mild exercise, moderate and high-i...

A re-analysis of data originally presented in Boice (1983) confirmed that those who wrote daily in regularly scheduled writing sessions produced more writing and more new ideas than those who wrote "only when they felt like it." Writers who wrote to avoid punishment (donating money to a despised charity) wrote more and produced more ideas, but the re-analysis revealed that they were less effici...

Background and aims: Chlorpyrifos (CPF) is an insecticide that widely used in the world. The purpose of this research was to investigate effect 4-week aerobic exercise eugenol supplementation on phosphatidylinositol-3-kinases/protein kinase/mammalian target rapamycin (Pi3K/AKT/mTOR) pathway skeletal muscle male rats poisoned with CPF. Methods: Overall, 12-week-old female were experimental resea...

INTRODUCTION Developing effective exercise programmes for the paediatric population is a strategy for decreasing obesity and is expected to help in eventually limiting obesity-associated long-term health and societal impact. In this study, the effects of a 12-week twice weekly additional exercise training, which comprised a combination of circuit-based resistance training and aerobic exercises,...

This systematic review investigated small-group Tier 2 interventions to improve oral language or reading outcomes for children during preschool and early primary school years. Literature published from 2008 was searched 152 papers selected full-text review; 55 studies were included. Three strength of evidence assessment tools identified a shortlist six with relatively strong evidence: (a) Early...

Cognitive remediation therapy is effective for improving cognition, symptoms and social functioning in individuals with schizophrenia; however, the impact on visual episodic memory remains unclear. The objectives of this feasibility study were: (1) to explore whether or not CIRCuiTS--a new computerised cognitive remediation therapy programme developed in England--improves visual episodic memory...

OBJECTIVE We determined the feasibility and outcomes of the Log Handwriting Program (Raynal, 1990), an 8-week training program based on task-specific practice of handwriting. METHOD We used a pretest-posttest design involving 16 first- and second-grade Australian students. Handwriting training sessions occurred in schools for 45 min per week over 8 weeks, in groups of 2 or 3. Weekly homework ...