Swimming may stimulate appetite and food intake but empirical data are lacking. This study examined appetite, food intake, and plasma acylated ghrelin responses to swimming. Fourteen healthy males completed a swimming trial and a control trial in a random order. Sixty min after breakfast participants swam for 60 min and then rested for six hours. Participants rested throughout the control trial...

INTRODUCTION Neuroma formation after peripheral nerve transection leads to severe neuropathic pain in amputees. Previous studies suggested that physical exercise could bring beneficial effect on alleviating neuropathic pain. However, the effect of exercise on neuroma pain still remained unclear. In addition, long-term exercise can affect the expression of neurotrophins (NT), such as nerve growt...

Background: Swimming is often the preferred exercise prescription for asthmatics. However, there is also concern because increased sensitisation to allergens and a high rate of bronchial responsiveness to methacholine has been reported in swimmers (Drobnic, 1992). It has recently been hypothesized that chronic exposure to chlorine compounds in swimming pool water might sensitize the airways and...

Swimming performance of fish is often improved following periods of moderate exercise training. To examine the effects of training regimes on swimming performance of juvenile bream Megalobrama pellegrini (5.10 ± 0.08 g), fish were held in slow-flowing water (control), or subjected to exercise training at 1 body length (BL) s−1, 2 BL s−1 or 4 BL s−1, or were given exhaustive chasing training dai...

objective(s): the beneficial and more potent role of exercise to prevent heart apoptosis in ovariectomized rats has been known. the aim of this study was to examine the effects of swimming training on cardiac expression of bcl-2, and mir-133 levels and glycogen changes in the myocyte. materials and methods: forty animals were separated into four groups as control, sham, ovariectomy (ovx) and ov...

• It has been proposed by some that lack of physical exercise may be an important factor in the occurrence of coronary inadequacy of various types. Recently, Tepperman and Pearlman x developed a technique for estimating the size of the coronary tree in the rat from the weight of a vinyl acetate cast of the tree. Using this technique they observed that swimming for a period of 30 minutes twice d...

Sustained swimming at 0.9 BL s(-)(1), where BL is fork body length, following a bout of exhaustive exercise enhanced recovery of metabolite and acid-base status in rainbow trout compared with fish held in still water. The most striking effect of an active recovery was a total absence of the elevation cortisol concentration typically associated with exhaustive exercise. In fish swimming at 0. 9 ...

UNLABELLED The present study examined the hyponociceptive effect of swimming exercise in a chemical behavioral model of nociception and the mechanisms involved in this effect. Male mice were submitted to swimming sessions (30 min/d for 5 days). Twenty-four hours after the last session, we noticed that swimming exercise decreased the number of abdominal constriction responses caused by acetic ac...

BACKGROUND The renal function of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients may be improved by a number of rehabilitative mechanisms. Swimming exercise training was supposed to be beneficial to its recovery. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Doxorubicin-induced CKD (DRCKD) rat model was performed. Swimming training was programmed three days per week, 30 or 60 min per day for a total period of 11 week...

Regular exercise can protect the heart against external stimuli, but the mechanism is not well understood. We determined the role of adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in regulating swimming exercise-mediated cardiac protection against β-adrenergic receptor overstimulation with isoproterenol (ISO) in mice. Ten-week-old AMPKα2+/+ and AMPKα2-knockout (AMPKα2-/-) littermates w...