ArticlePain research & management2018
Preconditioning Contractions Suppress Muscle Pain Markers after Damaging Eccentric Contractions.
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- Eccentric Exercise and Muscle Damage: An Introductory Guide.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Review
- Cyclic eccentric stretching induces more damage and improved subsequent protection than stretched isometric contractions in the lower limb.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Article
- Protective Effect Conferred by Isometric Preconditioning Against Slow- and Fast-Velocity Eccentric Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Inexperienced vigorous exercise, including eccentric contraction (ECC), causes muscle pain and damage. Similar prior light exercise suppresses the development of muscle pain (repeated-bout effect), but the molecular mechanisms behind this are not sufficiently understood. In this study, the influence of a nondamaging preconditioning ECC load (Precon) on muscle pain-related molecules and satellite cell-activating factors was investigated at the mRNA expression level. Nine-week-old male Wistar rats (
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