background: depression is one of the most common psychiatry disorders. the most common treatments for this disorder are pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. due to the side effects and expensiveness of these methods, developing the non-drug treatments seems to be necessary. this study tries to determine the effect of eight weeks of aerobic exercises on depression, frequency of negative automatic ...

objective: cardiovascular complications are the major cause of reduced lifetime in diabetic patients. given that physical activity can play an effective role in reducing these complications, the current study was conducted with the aim of examining the effects of 8 weeks of aerobic exercise on some cardiovascular risk factors in women with type 2 diabetes. materials and methods: twenty women wi...

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...

High levels of ,B-adrenergic stimulation accompany strenuous exercise, but the possibility that #-adrenergic blockade might prevent exercise conditioning has not been adequately investigated. We studied normal, sedentary men, ages 21-35 years, before and after 5 weeks of intensive aerobic conditioning. On a double-blind protocol, eight received placebo and nine propranolol throughout the condit...

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...