title: Effect of long-term swimming exercise on somatosensory evoked potentials in rats.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Akdeniz University, 07070, Antalya, Turkey. senturk@med.akdeniz.edu.tr
authors.forename: U K
authors.initials: UK
authors.lastname: Sentürk
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Aktekin
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kuru
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gündüz
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Aktekin
mesh_terms: 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