Document Detail


Neuroendocrine-immune interactions and responses to exercise.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21780849     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
This article reviews the interaction between the neuroendocrine and immune systems in response to exercise stress, considering gender differences. The body's response to exercise stress is a system-wide effort coordinated by the integration between the immune and the neuroendocrine systems. Although considered distinct systems, increasing evidence supports the close communication between them. Like any stressor, the body's response to exercise triggers a systematic series of neuroendocrine and immune events directed at bringing the system back to a state of homeostasis. Physical exercise presents a unique physiological stress where the neuroendocrine and immune systems contribute to accommodating the increase in physiological demands. These systems of the body also adapt to chronic overload, or exercise training. Such adaptations alleviate the magnitude of subsequent stress or minimize the exercise challenge to within homeostatic limits. This adaptive capacity of collaborating systems resembles the acquired, or adaptive, branch of the immune system, characterized by the memory capacity of the cells involved. Specific to the adaptive immune response, once a specific antigen is encountered, memory cells, or lymphocytes, mount a response that reduces the magnitude of the immune response to subsequent encounters of the same stress. In each case, the endocrine response to physical exercise and the adaptive branch of the immune system share the ability to adapt to a stressful encounter. Moreover, each of these systemic responses to stress is influenced by gender. In both the neuroendocrine responses to exercise and the adaptive (B lymphocyte) immune response, gender differences have been attributed to the 'protective' effects of estrogens. Thus, this review will create a paradigm to explain the neuroendocrine communication with leukocytes during exercise by reviewing (i) endocrine and immune interactions; (ii) endocrine and immune systems response to physiological stress; and (iii) gender differences (and the role of estrogen) in both endocrine response to physiological stress and adaptive immune response.
Authors:
Maren S Fragala; William J Kraemer; Craig R Denegar; Carl M Maresh; Andrea M Mastro; Jeff S Volek
Related Documents :
9116139 - Recombinant ovine and bovine interferons tau regulate prostaglandin production and oxyt...
9174249 - Prostaglandin uptake and catabolism by the choroid plexus during development in sheep.
7479299 - Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide during spontaneous bronchoconstriction in asthmatics.
2522719 - Plasma levels of atrial natriuretic peptide during myocardial ischemia induced by percu...
3970179 - Correlation between cardiac performance and plasma catecholamine levels in conscious dogs.
15542409 - Restrictive filling pattern is associated with increased humoral activation and impaire...
7887379 - Symptom-limited arm exercise increases detection of ischemia during dipyridamole tomogr...
6748919 - Temporomandibular joint repositioning and exercise performance: a double-blind study.
10211859 - Effects of cycling alone or in a sheltered position on subsequent running performance d...
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)     Volume:  41     ISSN:  0112-1642     ISO Abbreviation:  Sports Med     Publication Date:  2011 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-07-25     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8412297     Medline TA:  Sports Med     Country:  New Zealand    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  621-39     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
Export Citation:
APA/MLA Format     Download EndNote     Download BibTex
MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine


Previous Document:  The non-surgical and surgical treatment of tarsal navicular stress fractures.
Next Document:  The Pleasure and Displeasure People Feel When they Exercise at Different Intensities: Decennial Upda...