The aim of the present study is to understand the basic relationship between swimming
exercise and natural course of epilepsy in animals by performing an electrophysiological
study. For this purpose, male Wistar rats were submitted to daily swimming exercise program
of three different durations. Animals were swim-exercised for 90 days with either 15 minutes,
30 minutes or 60 minutes/day. Thereafter, the epileptiform activity was induced by a single
microinjection of penicillin (500 units) into the left somatomotor cortex. Short-duration …