Effect of Exercise Intensity on the Cytokine Response to an Acute Bout of Running

Jonathan P. R. Scott, Craig Sale, Julie P. Greeves, A. E. Casey, John Dutton, William D. Fraser

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2011 · 79 citations · 34 references

Abstract

Sixty minutes of treadmill running at 75% VO(2max) results in a greater increase in IL-6 but not TNF-α compared with 55% and 65% V(O2max). The higher IL-1ra concentrations at 75% VO(2max) might be related to the higher IL-6 concentrations that precede them.

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