THE INFLUENCE OF A SINGLE BOUT OF WRESTLING EXERCISE ON SERUM LEVELS OF ISCHEMIA-MODIFIED ALBUMIN

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of single bouts of exercise on changes in ischemia modified albumin (IMA) Twenty wrestlers (mean age 28 8 +/- 8 96 years) participated in this study They performed a typical 1 5 hour wrestling training session Blood was sampled before and immediately after training The albumin-cobalt binding test was used to measure IMA levels Serum albumin concentrations and blood lactate levels were also evaluated Mean serum IMA levels were 0 28 +/- 0 052 ABSU before training and 0 324 +/- 0 039 ABSU after training A single bout of acute exercise led to significant (p < 0 05) increases in IMA The results of the correlation tests indicated that there was a positive correlation between IMA and lactate levels (r=0 873 p<0 001) There were no significant correlations between IMA and albumin (r=-0 058 p=0 807) and between albumin and lactate levels (r=-0 120 p = 0 613) Our results showed that demanding intense anaerobic physical activity might influence the generation of IMA [J Exerc Sci Fit . Vol 8 . No 2 . 67-72 . 2010]