the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of 8 weeks of selective exercise activity and estrogen supplement on satellite cells in ovariectomized sprague-dawley rats. at first, subjects were ovariectomized and after one month of complete recovery, they were randomly divided into four groups: control, exercise activity, estrogen supplement, and exercise and estrogen supplement. only exe...

introduction: previous studies indicate that exercise influences cognitive function. nevertheless, considering that exercise in animal study can be voluntary, or forced, effects of exercise (specially forced exercise) on learning and memory abides as a matter of controversy. the present study aimed to investigate the effects of treadmill exercise on ltp in the dentate gyrus of rats. methods: th...

background around 7% of the world population have diabetes and suffer from its extensive complications. many studies are conducted on the positive effects of aerobic and resistance exercises on the reduction of body performances, but considering the available references, no specific study is conducted on the effect of eccentric exercises on patients with diabetes. objectives the current study a...

results the means ± standard deviations of the averaged emg during the lateral and frontal wp exercises were 40.1 ± 19.1, and 23.7 ± 11.3 µv, respectively. those of the percent maximal voluntary contraction during the lateral and frontal wp exercises were 51.4 ± 29.7, and 31.3 ± 20.5, respectively. gmax activity during the lateral wp exercise was significantly higher than that during the fronta...

objective(s): the purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of l-glutamine on electromyographic (emg) activity of the quadriceps muscle injured by eccentric exercise (ee).   materials and methods: seventeen healthy men (age: 22.35±2.27 yr; body mass: 69.91±9.78 kg; height: 177.08±4.32 cm) were randomly and double-blind study with subjects assigned to either an l-glutamine suppleme...

abstract background: self-regulation is one of the current psychological concepts that have been known as a determinant of leisure time physical activity. due to cultural and social diversity in different societies and age groups, application of specific questionnaires is essential to perform investigations about physical activities. the aim of this study is development and evaluation of psycho...

please cite this article as: sohrabi mr, davoudi-monfared e, tayefi b, hajihashemi z, sajjadi e. the effect of regular physical activity on exercise tolerance: a school-based intervention. novel biomed 2013;1(2):34-38. objectives: the main purpose of this study was to assess the effects of daily physical activity on exercise tolerance ability using the six minute walk test in healthy female stu...

conclusions there were significant distinctions in the skin temperature distribution during exercise according to the activity of the area under consideration during exercise, which may be important in the development of physiological models and heat flux analyses for different purposes. results during pre-exercise, all tsk reached a steady-state (p ≤ 0.05), which ensured adequate thermal stabi...