Biochemical Changes in Tissues during Infectious Illness: The Bioenergetics of Infection and Exercise

Abstract

Exercise has been categorized as forced, voluntary and involuntary. Treadmills and running wheels have been modified so that investigations can be made of each type of exercise in interaction with infectious disease. Rats exercising by voluntarily turning treadmills on and off had a high preference for treadmill speeds of 24.4 m/min which persisted despite changing workloads. These data are vital for the design of future experiments involving voluntary and forced exercise interactions with infectious disease. Preliminary studies showed that rats infected with S. typhimurium and given voluntary access to running wheels had less disease involvement and lower mortality rates than subjects not given access to running wheels. Keywords: Energy utilization; Protein metabolism; Newcastle disease.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA181722

Entities

People

  • Robert L. Squibb

Organizations

  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animal Diseases
  • Animals
  • Biomedical Research
  • Body Weight
  • Detectors
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Energy
  • Experimental Design
  • Infection
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Laboratory Animals
  • Metabolism
  • New Brunswick
  • Plant Oils
  • Wound Infections

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Exercise and Sports Science.
  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.