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Effect of physical exercise on adoptive experimental auto-immune encephalomyelitis in rats

European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology, ISSN: 0301-5548, Vol: 73, Issue: 1-2, Page: 130-135
1996
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The aim of the study was to determine whether different programmes of exercise influence adoptive monophasic experimental auto-immune encephalomyelitis (adoptive EAE), a paralytic disease mediated by T-cells. Adoptive EAE was induced by the transfer of activated encephalitogenic T-lymphocytes into syngeneic recipients (Lewis rats, n = 85) and its development was followed by two independent observers. The results showed that 2 days of severe exercise (250 and 300 min) performed after the adoptive transfer of EAE slightly delayed the onset of the disease (P < 0.008) and the day of its maximal severity (P < 0.016) without affecting the overall severity of the disease. When this programme of exercise was performed before the cell transfer, it had no effect (P > 0.05). Two more moderate exercise programmes (5 x 120 min of running at constant speed or 5 x 60 min of running at variable speed, 5 consecutive days) performed between the adoptive transfer and the onset of the disease did not modify the development of the clinical signs of adoptive EAE (P > 0.05). These results showed that severe exercise slightly influenced the effector phase of monophasic EAE and confirmed that physical exercise performed before the onset of experimental auto-immune diseases did not exacerbate the clinical signs.

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