Time course of neopterin and cytokines after an extreme bicycle race at moderate altitude

Pteridines

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-200

  Deetjen, Christian ^a   Mair, Johannes ^a   Herold, Manfred ^a   Wiedermann, Franz ^a   Hobisch Hagen, Petra ^a   Jelkmann, Wolfgang ^b   Hoffmann, Georg ^c   Schobersberger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Endurance exercise; Erythropoietin; Hypoxia; Moderate altitude; Neopterin

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; NEOPTERIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BICYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030666059     PISSN: 09334807     EISSN: 21954720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/pteridines.1997.8.3.195     Document Type: Article

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