Caffeine Appears To Be Beneficial In Males But Not Females With Lou Gehrig's Disease

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  April 18, 2009

EXCERPT: "A new study investigates the role of dietary intervention focused on an antioxidant popular in diets worldwide--coffee. The researchers examined the effect of coffee, caffeine and chlorogenic acid supplementation on markers of oxidative stress, antioxidant enzyme protein content and cell death in male and female mice models of ALS."   more

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Primary source: Experimental Biology 09 -- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

Source reference: Seevaratnam R, Sandeep R,Tarnopolsky MA, and Hamadeh MJ.   Caffeine Reduces Motor Performance and Antioxidant Enzyme Capacity in the Brain of Female G93A Mice, An Animal Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) [Poster D223 963.3]. Part of Poster 963:  Neurodenerative and Neurotoxic Disorders presented at Experimental Biology 09 FASEB 2009 (includes 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Physiological Society); Abstract 963.3 (access abstract via online conference itinerary)