Experiment 569975
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| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Panax ginseng (ARALIACEAE) |
| Citation | ENGELS,HJ: SAID,JM: WIRTH,JC:. (1996). FAILURE OF CHRONIC GINSENG SUPPLEMENTATION TO AFFECT WORK PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY METABOLISM IN HEALTHY ADULT FEMALES.. 16(8) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | THIS RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY SERVED TO EXAMINE A GROUP OF HEALTHY ADULT FEMALES WHO FOR EIGHT WEEKS ADDED 200 MG-DAY OF A CONCENTRATED EXTRACT OF PANAX GINSENG C.A. MEYER (N=10) OR PLACEBO (N=9) TO THEIR OTHERWISE SUPPLEMENT-FREE NOARMAL DIET. BEFORE AND AFTER THE TRIAL INTERVENTION, EACH SUBJECT PERFORMED A GRADED MAXIMAL CYCLE ERGOMETRY TEST TO EXHAUSTION AND COMPLETED A STANDARD HABITUAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY QUESTIONNAIRE. IT WAS OBSERVED THAT CHRONIC GINSENG SUPPLEMENTATION HAD NO EFFECT ON MAXIMAL WORK PERFORMANCE (J) AND RESTING, EXERCISE, AND RECOVERY OXYGEN UPTAKE (VO2,ML -KG' KG-MIN') RESPIRATORY EXCHANGE RATIO (PER), MINUTE VENTILATION (VE, L-MIN) HEART RATE (BEATS - MIN-I),AND BLOOD LACTIC ACID (MMOL L') LEVELS (P>0.05). HABITUAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SCORES OF STUDY PARTICIPANTS WERE FOUND TO BE SIMILAR BETWEEN THE PLACEBO AND GINSENG TREATMENT GROUPS AND AT THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE EIGHT WEEK TRIAL PERIOD (P>0.05). THE PRESENT DATA IN HEALTHY ADULT FEMALES INDICATE THAT CHRONIC DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION WITH A STANDARDIZED EXTRACT OF PANAX GINSENG C.A.MEYER DOSE NOT RESULT IN A ENHANCEMENT OF WORK PERFORMANCE OR A CHANGE IN ENERGY METABOLISM AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RECOVERY RESPONE FROM MAXIMAL PHYSICAL WORK. |
| Dose amount | 200.0 MG |
| Number | 2 |
| Qualitative result | INACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Per unit | DAY |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | SAPONIN FRACTION |
| Gender | FEMALE |