Daily Oxygen/O₃ Treatment Reduces Muscular Fatigue and Improves Cardiac Performance in Rats Subjected to Prolonged High Intensity Physical Exercise

Table 1

Distance covered during 5 weeks of oxygen/ozone (O₂/O₃) treatment (2–6th week of the protocol) by rats subjected to a prolonged high intensity exercise.

	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Weeks 2–6
Mean s.e.m. (m/week)
ET + O2	413 ± 23	456 ± 32	486 ± 12	517 ± 32	542 ± 10	482.8 ± 21.8
ET + O2/O3 100	462 ± 22	503 ± 21	521 ± 21	563 ± 13	587 ± 41	527.2 ± 23.6
ET + O2/O3 150	513 ± 31	549 ± 17	559 ± 29	611 ± 28	639 ± 42	574.2 ± 29.4
ET + O2/O3 300	559 ± 19	601 ± 28	641 ± 43	708 ± 24	735 ± 30	648.8 ± 28.8

The table shows the mean ± s.e.m. of the distance covered per single week and for the period of 5 weeks (2–6th week of the protocol) application of an oxygen/O₃ mixture to the four experimental groups of trained rats. Ozone treatment at dose of 150 g/kg significantly increased () the distance covered compared to the control exercised ET + O₂ rats. This effect was more evident at the dose of 300 g/kg, with a significance of versus ET + O₂ at the same week. ET = exercise trained rats running on treadmill. Significant differences with respect to ET + O₂ are shown as p < 0.05 and p < 0.01.