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Table 2 Muscle soreness and lactate dehydrogenase in young university students after muscle lesion induced by eccentric exercise (EE)

From: Vitamin E supplementation decreases muscular and oxidative damage but not inflammatory response induced by eccentric contraction

Groups

Muscle soreness

LDH (U/dL serum)

 

Pre-EE

2 days

4 days

7 days

Pre-EE

2 days

4 days

7 days

Control

0

6.2 ± 0.5*

2.3 ± 0.7#

1.2 ± 0.3#

224 ± 29

248 ± 15

1,292 ± 161*

1,221 ± 77*

Supplement

0

3.8 ± 0.8*#

1.2 ± 0.5#

0.00

203 ± 17

224 ± 27*#

981 ± 76*#

1,001 ± 45*#

  1. Participants marked their subjective rating of muscle soreness on a scale from 0 (without pain) to 10 (extreme pain). The difference in relation to pre-EE (*) and placebo group (#) was significant at p < 0.05
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The Journal of Physiological Sciences

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