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Published on: August 22, 2014
Regular exercise: an effective means to reduce oxidative stress in old rats
Sataro Goto1, Zsolt Radák, Csaba Nyakas
1Department of Biochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, Miyama 2-2-1, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8510 Japan. goto@phar.toho-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
A healthy diet and regular exercise are among the major factors that influence quality of life (QOL) in old age. Exercise is believed to be beneficial to improve QOL, retarding age-related decline of physiological functions and preventing age-related diseases. Regular physical exercise can possibly improve age-related functional decline and delay onset of age-related diseases by attenuating potentially harmful oxidative damage and suppressing inflammatory processes even in older age.
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