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Does the Fragrance of Essential Oils Alleviate the Fatigue Induced by Exercise? A Biochemical Indicator Test in Rats

OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of the essential oils of Citrus sinensis L., Mentha piperita L., Syzygium aromaticum L., and Rosmarinus officinalis L. on physical exhaustion in rats. METHODS: Forty-eight male Wistar rats were randomly divided into a control group, a fatigue group, an essential oil mi...

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Autores principales: Li, Zhiyue, Wu, Fengzhi, Shao, Haozhen, Zhang, Yu, Fan, Angran, Li, Feng
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Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5684592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5027372
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author Li, Zhiyue
Wu, Fengzhi
Shao, Haozhen
Zhang, Yu
Fan, Angran
Li, Feng
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Wu, Fengzhi
Shao, Haozhen
Zhang, Yu
Fan, Angran
Li, Feng
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description OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of the essential oils of Citrus sinensis L., Mentha piperita L., Syzygium aromaticum L., and Rosmarinus officinalis L. on physical exhaustion in rats. METHODS: Forty-eight male Wistar rats were randomly divided into a control group, a fatigue group, an essential oil mixture (EOM) group, and a peppermint essential oil (PEO) group. Loaded swimming to exhaustion was used as the rat fatigue model. Two groups were nebulized with EOM and PEO after swimming, and the others were nebulized with distilled water. After continuous inhalation for 3 days, the swimming time, blood glucose, blood lactic acid (BLA), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX), and malondialdehyde (MDA) in blood were determined. RESULTS: While an increased time to exhaustion and SOD activity were apparent in both the EOM and PEO groups, the BLA and MDA were lower in both groups, in comparison with the fatigue group, and the changes in the EOM group were more dramatic. Additionally, the EOM group also showed marked changes of the rise of blood glucose and the decrease of BUN and GSH-PX. CONCLUSION: The results suggested that the inhalation of an essential oil mixture could powerfully relieve exercise-induced fatigue.
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spelling pubmed-56845922017-12-11 Does the Fragrance of Essential Oils Alleviate the Fatigue Induced by Exercise? A Biochemical Indicator Test in Rats Li, Zhiyue Wu, Fengzhi Shao, Haozhen Zhang, Yu Fan, Angran Li, Feng Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Research Article OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of the essential oils of Citrus sinensis L., Mentha piperita L., Syzygium aromaticum L., and Rosmarinus officinalis L. on physical exhaustion in rats. METHODS: Forty-eight male Wistar rats were randomly divided into a control group, a fatigue group, an essential oil mixture (EOM) group, and a peppermint essential oil (PEO) group. Loaded swimming to exhaustion was used as the rat fatigue model. Two groups were nebulized with EOM and PEO after swimming, and the others were nebulized with distilled water. After continuous inhalation for 3 days, the swimming time, blood glucose, blood lactic acid (BLA), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX), and malondialdehyde (MDA) in blood were determined. RESULTS: While an increased time to exhaustion and SOD activity were apparent in both the EOM and PEO groups, the BLA and MDA were lower in both groups, in comparison with the fatigue group, and the changes in the EOM group were more dramatic. Additionally, the EOM group also showed marked changes of the rise of blood glucose and the decrease of BUN and GSH-PX. CONCLUSION: The results suggested that the inhalation of an essential oil mixture could powerfully relieve exercise-induced fatigue. Hindawi 2017 2017-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5684592/ /pubmed/29234408 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5027372 Text en Copyright © 2017 Zhiyue Li et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Li, Zhiyue
Wu, Fengzhi
Shao, Haozhen
Zhang, Yu
Fan, Angran
Li, Feng
Does the Fragrance of Essential Oils Alleviate the Fatigue Induced by Exercise? A Biochemical Indicator Test in Rats
title Does the Fragrance of Essential Oils Alleviate the Fatigue Induced by Exercise? A Biochemical Indicator Test in Rats
title_full Does the Fragrance of Essential Oils Alleviate the Fatigue Induced by Exercise? A Biochemical Indicator Test in Rats
title_fullStr Does the Fragrance of Essential Oils Alleviate the Fatigue Induced by Exercise? A Biochemical Indicator Test in Rats
title_full_unstemmed Does the Fragrance of Essential Oils Alleviate the Fatigue Induced by Exercise? A Biochemical Indicator Test in Rats
title_short Does the Fragrance of Essential Oils Alleviate the Fatigue Induced by Exercise? A Biochemical Indicator Test in Rats
title_sort does the fragrance of essential oils alleviate the fatigue induced by exercise? a biochemical indicator test in rats
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5684592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5027372
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