Antioxidants and cyokine response to muscular exercise

.:. Exercise produces elevation of the basal level of proinflammatory cytokines in both adult and old aged white albino rats .• :. Antioxidants attenuate the cytokine response to exercise in both adult and old aged white albino rats .• :. Effect of exercise and antioxidant supplementation IS more prominent in old aged compared with adult animals .:. The interrelation between pro inflammatory cytokines and each other is obvious in old sedentary animals but not in exercised ..