Strategies to enhance immune function for marathon runners: What can be done?

Sports Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 416-419

  Åkerström, Thorbjörn C A ^a   Pedersen, Bente K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMINE;

COLOSTRUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MARATHON RUNNER; PROPHYLAXIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 34247895669     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200737040-00037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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