Effect of long-term swimming exercise on somatosensory evoked potentials in rats.
The study investigated whether long-term swimming exercise prevents age-related changes in rat somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and somatosensory cortex (SC) morphology. A total of 25 9-month-old rats were assigned to an exercise or control group. The exercise group swam 1 h/day five times weekly for 1 year. The results showed that long-term exercise prevented age-related changes in SEPs and SC morphology.
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Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07070, Antalya, Turkey. senturk@med.akdeniz.edu.tr
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D000818:Animals; D005073:Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010805:Physical Conditioning, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D013550:Swimming