Skeletal muscle abnormalities are responsible for significant disability in the elderly.
Sarcopenia is the main alteration occurring during senescence and a key public health …

Medical advances and the availability of diagnostic tools have considerably increased life
expectancy and, consequently, the elderly segment of the world population. As age is a …

Despite the lower prevalence of severe mood disorders in the elderly as compared to
younger adults, late-life depression and bipolar disorder (BD) are more strongly associated …

Cachexia is a prevalent pathological condition associated with chronic heart failure. Its
occurrence predicts increased morbidity and mortality independent of important clinical …

Skeletal muscle is able to modify its size, and its metabolic/contractile properties in response
to a variety of stimuli, such as mechanical stress, neuronal activity, metabolic and hormonal …

Background: Physical exercise is a strategy to control hypertension and attenuate pressure
overload-induced cardiac remodeling. The influence of exercise on cardiac remodeling …

We compared the influence of aerobic and resistance exercise on cardiac remodelling,
physical capacity and skeletal muscle oxidative stress in rats with MI‐induced heart failure …

Objective. We evaluated the influence of exercise on functional capacity, cardiac
remodeling, and skeletal muscle oxidative stress, MAPK, and NF‐κB pathway in rats with …

Background: Although nutritional, metabolic and cardiovascular abnormalities are
commonly seen in experimental studies of obesity, it is uncertain whether these effects result …

We evaluated the effects of a low intensity aerobic exercise protocol on cardiac remodeling
and myocardial function in diabetic rats. Wistar rats were assigned into four groups …