Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 293-299 , April 2008

Antifatigue effects of coenzyme Q10 during physical fatigue

  • Kei Mizuno, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • The 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue” (from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government), Osaka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81-6-6645-3711; fax: +81-6-6645-3712.
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  • Masaaki Tanaka, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • The 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue” (from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government), Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Satoshi Nozaki, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • The 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue” (from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government), Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Hiroshi Mizuma, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • The 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue” (from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government), Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Suzuka Ataka, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • The 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue” (from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government), Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Tsuyoshi Tahara, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • The 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue” (from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government), Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Tomohiro Sugino, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Soiken Incorporation, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Tomoko Shirai, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Soiken Incorporation, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Yoshitaka Kajimoto, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Soiken Incorporation, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Hirohiko Kuratsune, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • The 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue” (from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government), Osaka, Japan
    • Department of Health Science, Faculty of Health Science for Welfare, Kansai University of Welfare Sciences, Osaka, Japan
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  • Osami Kajimoto, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Soiken Incorporation, Osaka, Japan
    • Center for Health Care, Osaka University of Foreign Study, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Yasuyoshi Watanabe, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • The 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue” (from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government), Osaka, Japan

Received 31 August 2007 ,Accepted 11 December 2007.

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 This work was supported in part by Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, and the 21st Century COE Program “Base to Overcome Fatigue”, from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Japanese Government.

PII: S0899-9007(07)00382-6

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2007.12.007

Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 293-299 , April 2008

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