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Virginia Tech researcher helps discover underlying mechanisms behind regular exercise benefits - EurekAlert


The Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium, of which Zhen Yan is a founding member, studied both male and female rats over eight weeks of endurance exercise and found thousands of molecular alterations. These findings, which published in May in Nature, have implications for human health, such as in liver disease, bowel disease, cardiovascular health, and tissue recovery.

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