ReviewAntioxidants & redox signaling2013
Oxygen consumption and usage during physical exercise: the balance between oxidative stress and ROS-dependent adaptive signaling.
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287 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 591 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effects of exhaustive and/or strenuous exercise on aging-related molecular and physiological biomarkers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Biogerontology · 2026Pooled it
- Timing-dependent effects of melatonin supplementation on exercise performance and exercise-induced muscle damage: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of physical exercise on genotoxicity in older adults: a systematic review.Biogerontology · 2025Pooled it
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- Effect of food sources of nitrate, polyphenols, L-arginine and L-citrulline on endurance exercise performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of Different Exercise Modalities on Oxidative Stress: A Systematic Review.BioMed research international · 2021Pooled it
- Ischemic preconditioning modulates the acute post-exercise inflammatory, angiogenic, and neurotrophic response in endurance runners.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Effects of a 12-week table tennis training on physical fitness and serum antioxidant parameters for older adults.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Circuit training on oxidative stress and arterial health: a health promotion perspective for obese adult men.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Effect of resistance training and high-intensity interval training on metabolic parameters and serum level of Sirtuin1 in postmenopausal women with metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.Lipids in health and disease · 2023Trial
- Predictors of pulmonary hypertension in patients with hypersensitivity pneumonitis.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023Trial
- The Effect of a Single Bout of Exercise on Vitamin B2 Status Is Not Different between High- and Low-Fit Females.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Chromosomal stability in buccal cells was linked to age but not affected by exercise and nutrients - Vienna Active Ageing Study (VAAS), a randomized controlled trial.Redox biology · 2020Trial
- Combined effects of very short "all out" efforts during sprint and resistance training on physical and physiological adaptations after 2 weeks of training.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Trial
- Effects of ascorbic acid supplementation on oxidative stress markers in healthy women following a single bout of exercise.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2019Trial
- Plasma Sulphur-Containing Amino Acids, Physical Exercise and Insulin Sensitivity in Overweight Dysglycemic and Normal Weight Normoglycemic Men.Nutrients · 2018Trial
- The effects of Montmorency tart cherry juice supplementation and FATMAX exercise on fat oxidation rates and cardio-metabolic markers in healthy humans.European journal of applied physiology · 2018Trial
- Exercise-Induced Reductive Stress Is a Protective Mechanism against Oxidative Stress in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2018Trial
- Mechanisms of Exercise Training in Ameliorating Cognitive Function in Patients With Depression: A Narrative Review of Molecular Targets and Clinical Prescriptions.European journal of sport science · 2026Review
- Increased oxygen demand during exercise as a stimulus for neuroprotection: A working hypothesis.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
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Abstract
The complexity of human DNA has been affected by aerobic metabolism, including endurance exercise and oxygen toxicity. Aerobic endurance exercise could play an important role in the evolution of Homo sapiens, and oxygen was not important just for survival, but it was crucial to redox-mediated adaptation. The metabolic challenge during physical exercise results in an elevated generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are important modulators of muscle contraction, antioxidant protection, and oxidative damage repair, which at moderate levels generate physiological responses. Several factors of mitochondrial biogenesis, such as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α), mitogen-activated protein kinase, and SIRT1, are modulated by exercise-associated changes in the redox milieu. PGC-1α activation could result in decreased oxidative challenge, either by upregulation of antioxidant enzymes and/or by an increased number of mitochondria that allows lower levels of respiratory activity for the same degree of ATP generation. Endogenous thiol antioxidants glutathione and thioredoxin are modulated with high oxygen consumption and ROS generation during physical exercise, controlling cellular function through redox-sensitive signaling and protein-protein interactions. Endurance exercise-related angiogenesis, up to a significant degree, is regulated by ROS-mediated activation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α. Moreover, the exercise-associated ROS production could be important to DNA methylation and post-translation modifications of histone residues, which create heritable adaptive conditions based on epigenetic features of chromosomes. Accumulating data indicate that exercise with moderate intensity has systemic and complex health-promoting effects, which undoubtedly involve regulation of redox homeostasis and signaling.
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