Glutamine is the most abundant and versatile amino acid in the body. In health and disease,
the rate of glutamine consumption by immune cells is similar or greater than glucose. For …

Pericarditis refers to the inflammation of the pericardial layers, resulting from a variety of
stimuli triggering a stereotyped immune response, and characterized by chest pain …

Background COVID-19 is a droplet-transmitted potentially fatal coronavirus pandemic
affecting the world in 2020. The WHO recommended social distancing and human-to-human …

Strength exercise is a strategy applied in sports and physical training processes. It may
induce skeletal muscle hypertrophy. The hypertrophy is dependent on the eccentric muscle …

The modern-day athlete participating in elite sports is exposed to high training loads and
increasingly saturated competition calendar. Emerging evidence indicates that inappropriate …

Stress-induced immunological reactions to exercise have stimulated much research into
stress immunology and neuroimmunology. It is suggested that exercise can be employed as …

Physical activity initiates a wide range of multi-systemic adaptations that promote mental and
physical health. Recent work demonstrated that exercise triggers the release of extracellular …

Sports nutrition is a constantly evolving field with hundreds of research papers published
annually. For this reason, keeping up to date with the literature is often difficult. This paper is …

Recent research has led to a better but as yet incomplete understanding of the complex
roles osteopontin plays in mammalian physiology. A soluble protein found in all body fluids …

Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically and in detail the relationships
between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the benefits of exercise in the …