TY - CHAP
T1 - Additional effects of taurine on the benefits of BCAA intake for the delayed-onset muscle soreness and muscle damage induced by high-intensity eccentric exercise
AU - Ra, Song Gyu
AU - Miyazaki, Teruo
AU - Ishikura, Keisuke
AU - Nagayama, Hisashi
AU - Suzuki, Takafumi
AU - Maeda, Seiji
AU - Ito, Masaharu
AU - Matsuzaki, Yasushi
AU - Ohmori, Hajime
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Seikatsu Bunkasya Co. Inc. (Chiba, Japan) for helpful discussion and assistants. This study was supported, in part, by an educational grant from the Seikatsu Bunkasya Co. Inc. Authors also thank Kasumigaura Research Agency for adult diseases (Ami, Japan) for masked rapping of amino acid powders for double-blind study.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Taurine (TAU) has a lot of the biological, physiological, and pharmocological functions including anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative stress. Although previous studies have appreciated the effectiveness of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) on the delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS), consistent finding has not still convinced. The aim of this study was to examine the additional effect of TAU with BCAA on the DOMS and muscle damages after eccentric exercise. Thirty-six untrained male volunteers were equally divided into four groups, and ingested a combination with 2.0 g TAU (or placebo) and 3.2 g BCAA (or placebo), thrice a day, 2 weeks prior to and 4 days after elbowflexion eccentric exercise. Following the period after eccentric exercise, the physiological and blood biochemical markers for DOMS and muscle damage showed improvement in the combination of TAU and BCAA supplementation rather than in the single or placebo supplementations. In conclusion, additional supplement of TAU with BCAA would be a useful way to attenuate DOMS and muscle damages induced by high-intensity exercise.
AB - Taurine (TAU) has a lot of the biological, physiological, and pharmocological functions including anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative stress. Although previous studies have appreciated the effectiveness of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) on the delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS), consistent finding has not still convinced. The aim of this study was to examine the additional effect of TAU with BCAA on the DOMS and muscle damages after eccentric exercise. Thirty-six untrained male volunteers were equally divided into four groups, and ingested a combination with 2.0 g TAU (or placebo) and 3.2 g BCAA (or placebo), thrice a day, 2 weeks prior to and 4 days after elbowflexion eccentric exercise. Following the period after eccentric exercise, the physiological and blood biochemical markers for DOMS and muscle damage showed improvement in the combination of TAU and BCAA supplementation rather than in the single or placebo supplementations. In conclusion, additional supplement of TAU with BCAA would be a useful way to attenuate DOMS and muscle damages induced by high-intensity exercise.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-6093-0_18
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-6093-0_18
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 23392882
AN - SCOPUS:84878795720
SN - 9781461460923
T3 - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SP - 179
EP - 187
BT - Taurine 8
PB - Springer New York LLC
ER -