European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

EFFECTS OF EXERCISE AND GAME ON BOY’S PHYSIOLOGY AND SALIVARY ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES

Umesh Thakur, Deepak Thakur, Kriti Sharma, Neha Kumari and Dr. Arup Giri*

ABSTRACT

Background: This experiment was conducted to determine the exercise effects on anthropometric parameters and salivary antioxidant properties in boys. Material and methods: Saliva samples were collected from fourteen clinically healthy boys (for exercise-07 and game-07 boys). The body temperature, pulse rate (PR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were measured before the exercise and the game as anthropometric parameters. FRAP and DPPH levels were evaluated as the antioxidant parameters of all the saliva samples. Results: Results of two groups‟ viz. exercise and game showed the significantly (p<0.05) increased level of temperature, pulse rate, SBP, and DBP after the workout and game except for the insignificant (p>0.05) increase of pulse rate in the exercise group. Overall anthropometric parameters showed that exercise and game caused physiological stress. Total antioxidant power and total antioxidant scavenging activity were significantly higher after the workout and game. Conclusion: Therefore, from this study, it might be concluded that salivary antioxidant property was changed due to the produced stress after exercise and the game. Meanwhile, in stress, saliva may be useful as the stress biomarker. In the future, the study should be conducted on a large number of volunteers for the changes in the composition of salivary in a different time period of stress due to exercise and game.

Keywords: Antioxidant, DPPH, exercise, FRAP, saliva.