Does quercetin and vitamin C improve exercise performance, muscle damage, and body composition in male athletes?

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 328-331

  Askari, Gholamreza ^a   Ghiasvand, Reza ^a   Karimian, Jahangir ^b   Feizi, Awat ^c   Paknahad, Zamzam ^a   Sharifirad, Gholamreza ^d   Hajishafiei, Maryam ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Faculty of Management and Medical Information   (Iran)

^c Faculty of Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (Iran)

^d ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Body composition; Muscle damage; Performance; Quercetin; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; QUERCETIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 84861608175     PISSN: 17351995     EISSN: 17357136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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