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Exercise and resistance to infectious illness -- Historical perspectives -- Are athletes susceptible to infectious illness? -- Resistance to experimentally induced infectious illness -- Does acute illness affect exercise performance? -- Practical considerations for the athlete - Summary and conclusions -- Overview of the immune system -- General scheme of the immune system -- Innate and adaptive immunity -- Cells of the immune system -- Immunoglobulin and antibody -- Phagocytosis -- Soluble factors in the immune response -- Adhesion molecules -- Overview of methods to assess immune function -- Immune response to tumor cells -- Summary and conclusions -- Exercise and leukocytes: number, distribution, and proliferation -- Leukocyte number and subset distribution -- Granulocyte number -- Lymphocyte number and subset distribution -- Exercise and NK cell number -- Exercise and monocyte number -- Mechanisms underlying leukocyte redistribution -- Summary and conclusions -- Exercise and innate immunity: phagocytes, complement, and acute phase proteins -- Phagocytic cells -- Soluble mediators of innate immunity -- Summary and conclusions -- Exercise and humoral immunity: immunoglobulin, antibody, and mucosal immunity -- Serum Ig and antibody -- The mucosal immune system -- Mechanisms underlying exercise-induced changes in Ig and antibody -- Summary and conclusions -- Exercise and cytokines -- Interleukin-1 -- Interleukin-2 -- Interleukin-6 -- Interferon -- Tumor necrosis factor α -- Mechanisms underlying the cytokine response to exercise -- Summary and conclusions -- Exercise and cytotoxic cells -- Exercise and NK cells -- Exercise and LAK cytotoxic activity -- Exercise and monocyte/macrophage cytotoxic activity -- Exercise and cytotoxic T cells -- Summary and conclusions -- Immune response to exercise: potential clinical applications -- Exercise and cancer -- Exercise and Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 infection -- Aging -- Spaceflight -- Dietary intervention to boost immunity in athletes -- Summary and conclusions -- Exercise and immunology: current knowledge and future directions -- Current knowledge -- Future directions -- Closing comments.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-351) and index.