Michel Monteiro Macedo, Fernando Francisco Pazello Mafra, Carla de Brito Teixeira, Romildo Torres-Silva, Raphael Peres Dos Santos Francisco, Pedro Paulo Gattai, Mirian Aparecida Boim, Jan Magnus Bjordal, Fabio Dupart Nascimento, Patrícia Sardinha Leonardo, Sadi S F Stamborowski, Rodrigo Álvaro Brandão Lopes-Martins
Objective: In professional sports activities, the search for increased performance is constant. Electrophysical agents, including photobiomodulation (PBM), have been used in the sports context to accelerate postworkout recovery, prevent injuries, and even to improve performance. This study aims to investigate the effects of infrared laser (904 nm) on skeletal muscle gene expression of performance-related proteins of rats submitted to a chronic resistance training protocol. Materials and methods: Male Wistar rats ( n = 40), weighing ±300 g were divided into four groups: sedentary control (CT, n = 10); irradiated control (CTL, n = 10); exercised not irradiated (EX, n = 10); exercised irradiated (EXL, n = 10)...
December 2020: Photobiomodulation, photomedicine, and laser surgery