Overtraining, excessive exercise, and altered immunity: Is this a T helper-1 versus T helper-2 lymphocyte response?

Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 347-364

  Smith, Lucille Lakier ^a  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIBODY; BETA INTERFERON; CATECHOLAMINE; CHEMOKINE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HEMOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; ICOSANOID; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 18; LYMPHOTOXIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACCESSORY CELL; ATHLETE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; MARATHON RUNNER; OVEREXERTION; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THEORY; TISSUE INJURY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; UPREGULATION;

DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SYNDROME; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0037540000     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200333050-00002     Document Type: Review

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