Exercise immunology: integration and regulation

✍ Scribed by Bente Klarlund Pedersen; David C Nieman

• Book ID: 104298899
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 112 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-5699
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-5699(98)01255-9

✦ Synopsis

nterest in the effect of physical activity on the immune system is not limited to exercise physiologists. Recent research in stress immunology, neuroendocrinoimmunology and infectious disease medicine has been stimulated by the acceptance of exercise as a tool to study the immune system. Exercise can be employed as a model of temporary immunosuppression that occurs after severe physical stress 1 . Furthermore, exercise that is associated with muscle damage may represent a model of the acute-phase response to local injury. It is therefore timely to integrate results on exercise and immunology in the context of physical stress and immunology, with input from the disciplines of epidemiology, physiology, immunology, endocrinology, nutrition, pathology and sports medicine.