introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of aerobic exercise on brain natriuretic peptide (bnp) and c-reactive protein (crp) levels in women with cardiovascular diseases. materials and methods: in this semi experimental study, thirty female patients with at least one coronary artery stenosis (more than70%) were chosen and divided into two groups of aerobic training (n=15)...

objective: elevated amino acid homocysteine (hcy) levels and insufficient physical activity are the risk factors in alzheimer disease (ad) development. the effect of intermittent aerobic training on memory retention test and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (tbars) and superoxide dismutase (sod) levels in the dorsal hippocampus of rats which were stimulated with hcy is investigated. meth...

Cognitive performance includes the processes of attention, memory, processing speed, and executive functioning, which typically declines with aging. Previous research has demonstrated that aerobic and resistance exercise improves cognitive performance immediately following exercise. However, there is limited research examining the effect that a cognitively complex exercise such as martial art t...

Tanaka, Hirofumi, and Douglas R. Seals. Invited Review: Dynamic exercise performance in Masters athletes: insight into the effects of primary human aging on physiological functional capacity. J Appl Physiol 95: 2152–2162, 2003;10.1152/japplphysiol.00320.2003.—Physiological functional capacity (PFC) is defined here as the ability to perform the physical tasks of daily life and the ease with whic...

abstract        background and objective: doxorubicin (dox) is an effective anticancer drug. it has been shown that  a short-term exercise performed prior to dox-treatment has no effect on cardiotoxicity in young rats. in the present study, old and young rats were evaluated to determine the protective effects of pre-treatment with short-term exercise on dox-induced oxidative damage in cardiac t...

INTRODUCTION This randomized, controlled study on patients with polymyositis or dermatomyositis was based on three hypotheses: patients display impaired endurance due to reduced aerobic capacity and muscle weakness, endurance training improves their exercise performance by increasing the aerobic capacity, and endurance training has general beneficial effects on their health status. METHODS In...