August 19/Shandong, China/Health & Medicine Week -- According to a study from Shandong, People's Republic of China, "This study investigated the effect of Ginkgo biloba extract on Free Radical Metabolism of Liver in mice during endurance exercise. Forty-eight mice were divided into the quiet group and the exercised group."
"And the two groups were both grouped again, including the control group and the drug-treated group. After exhaustive exercise, the exercised groups were subdivided into the immediate group and the recovery group. The swimming time to exhaustion significantly prolonged in the exercised drug-treated group as compared with the exercised control group (p<0.05); The SOD activity of drug-treated groups significantly increased (p<0.05) as compared with the control groups and MDA content was significantly lower (p<0.05). The SOD activity and MDA content of exercised control groups significantly increased (p<0.05) as compared with the quiet control group. The SOD activity and MDA content of exercised drug-treated groups significantly increased (p<0.05) as compared with the quiet drug-treated group," wrote B. Yan and colleagues.