The rat closely mimics oxidative stress and inflammation in humans after exercise but not after exercise combined with vitamin C administration

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 791-804

  Veskoukis, Aristidis S ^a   Goutianos, Georgios ^a   Paschalis, Vassilis ^b,c   Margaritelis, Nikos V ^a,d   Tzioura, Aikaterini ^a,e   Dipla, Konstantina ^a   Zafeiridis, Andreas ^a   Vrabas, Ioannis S ^a   Kyparos, Antonios ^a   Nikolaidis, Michalis G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d 424 General Army Hospital   (Greece)

^e General District Hospital of Serres   (Greece)

Author keywords

Animal models; Biomarkers; Exercise; Human; Rat; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; VITAMIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WISTAR RAT;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VITAMINS;

EID: 84957605784     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-016-3336-8     Document Type: Article

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