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Exercise and the Immune Response

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A growing number of reports have become available which implicate infectious disease with reduced performance in athletes.

The immune system consists of both nonspecific and specific components geared to control infections. Adaptive immunity functions through both antibody-mediated and cell-mediated compartments to establish and maintain long term immunity to infectious agents. Evidence is accumulating to support the view that physical exercise can lead to modification of the cells of the immune system. However, studies have often not been well designed to control exercise protocols when examining the effects of exercise on the immune system.

Large numbers of peripheral blood lymphocytes are mobilised with exercise and in vitro tests indicate that temporarily these cells may not be capable of responding normally to mitogens. These reactions appear to be influenced by hormones to some degree and there are reports that the cells of the immune system are extremely active biochemically and may depend on products from muscles to maintain their activity.

Specific populations within the circulating leucocyte pool vary significantly with exercise and there is some evidence that the T4/T8 lymphocyte ratio may become significantly reduced. This reduction in ratio may be related to the variable responses to T and B cell mitogens recorded in vitro which overall suggests that a temporary immune suppression may exist following certain training or performance schedules. It is argued that this may lead to a temporary susceptibility to infection and could result from overtraining.

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Keast, D., Cameron, K. & Morton, A.R. Exercise and the Immune Response. Sports Medicine 5, 248–267 (1988). https://doi.org/10.2165/00007256-198805040-00004

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