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Fitness level impacts salivary antimicrobial protein responses to a single bout of cycling exercise

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posted on 2015-02-24, 13:39 authored by Hawley Kunz, Nicolette BishopNicolette Bishop, Guillaume Spielmann, Mira Pistillo, Justin Reed, Teja Ograjsek, Yoonjung Park, Satish K. Mehta, Duane L. Pierson, Richard J. Simpson
Purpose: Salivary antimicrobial proteins (sAMPs) protect the upper respiratory tract (URTI) from invading microorganisms and have been linked with URTI infection risk in athletes. While high training volume is associated with increased URTI risk, it is not known if fitness affects the sAMP response to acute exercise. This study compared the sAMP responses to various exercising workloads of highly fit experienced cyclists with those who were less fit.

Funding

This work was supported by NASA Grant NNX12AB48G to R.J. Simpson.

History

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Citation

KUNZ, H. ... et al, 2015. Fitness level impacts salivary antimicrobial protein responses to a single bout of cycling exercise. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 115(5), pp. 1015-1027.

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© Springer-Verlag

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

The final publication is available at Springer via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00421-014-3082-8

ISSN

1439-6319

Language

  • en