Exercise and inflammation
Exercise and inflammation
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DOI:
10.1152/japplphysiol.00414.2007
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发表时间:
2007-07-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Febbraio, Mark A.
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作者:
Febbraio, Mark A.
the purpose of this review series is to highlight the tremendous advancement in knowledge that has taken place over the last five to ten years regarding the interaction between physical exercise and inflammation. Many years ago, it was recognized that regular, moderate exercise reduced the risk of infection compared with a sedentary lifestyle, whereas prolonged, heavy intensity exercise increased infection risk; the so called “J-shaped model”(16). However, the precise nexus between physical activity, inflammation, and immunity has, until recently, been unknown, as studies in this area, and the conclusions they made, were largely based on descriptive data analysis. Indeed, in a comprehensive review on exercise and immune function, published at the turn of the millennium, Pedersen and Hoffman Goetz (18) recognized this and commented,“The focus of future work in exercise immunology should move beyond descriptive, phenomenological studies to studies of underlying neural, hormonal, cytokine, and biochemical mechanisms for the observed effects.” It must be said that researchers in the field have heeded this message, and this can be clearly observed from the present review series.In the first of the series, Gleeson (7) reviews the literature relating to immune function in sport and exercise. One new and exciting development in this field, from work conducted in Dr. Gleeson's laboratory, is the role that Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play in the immune response in humans during exercise. TLR's are an evolutionary, conserved family of pattern recognition receptors known to play an essential role in detecting infection in both Drosophila and mammals (9). In a paper by Lancaster et al.(13), the authors demonstrated that physical activity decreased the expression of TLR1, TLR2, and TLR4 and concluded that TLR function is subject to modulation under physiological conditions in vivo. Intriguingly, physical exercise is known to increase circulating heat shock proteins (23), which are known to activate TLR2 and TLR4 (1), highlighting the complexity of the immune system in response to physical exercise. The theme of exercise and immune function is continued in the review by Cooper (4), who proposes the theory that exercise elicits an immunological danger type of stress that, on occasions, becomes dysregulated and detrimental to well-being. This view is consistent with that of Matzinger (14), who was the first to challenge the “self versus non-self” theory of immune function, a proposed model of immunity based on the idea that the immune system is more concerned with molecules that do damage rather than those that are foreign. In his review, Dr. Cooper provides various instances of the “danger theory” in the context of strenuous exercise. For example, he points out that food-sensitizing immune cells are relatively innocuous in homeostasis. However, in cases of exercise anaphylaxis, these cells are redistributed from depots such as the spleen into the central circulation where they are no longer harmless.