Vitamin C, neutrophil function, and upper respiratory tract infection risk in distance runners: The missing link

Exercise Immunology Review

Volumn , Issue 3, 1997, Pages 32-52

  Peters Futre, Edith M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID;

DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHILIA; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; REVIEW; RUNNING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; CLINICAL TRIALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHILS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RESPIRATORY BURST; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK; RUNNING;

EID: 0030992297     PISSN: 10775552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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