Branched-chain amino acid supplementation and the immune response of long-distance athletes

Nutrition

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 376-379

  Bassit, Reinaldo A ^a   Sawada, Letícia A ^a   Bacurau, Reury F P ^a   Navarro, Franciso ^a   Martins Jr, Eivor ^a   Santos, Ronaldo V T ^a   Caperuto, Erico C ^a   Rogeri, Patrícia ^a   Costa Rosa, Luís F B P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Glutamine; Immune system; Immunossupression; Lymphocyte proliferation; Running; Triathlon

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GLUTAMINE; GLUTATHIONE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ATHLETE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EXERCISE; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIATHLON;

ADULT; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BICYCLING; CYTOKINES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; SWIMMING;

ELAGATIS;

EID: 0036233129     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(02)00753-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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