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- Title
Influence of Hesperidin on Systemic Immunity of Rats Following an Intensive Training and Exhausting Exercise.
- Authors
Ruiz-Iglesias, Patricia; Estruel-Amades, Sheila; Camps-Bossacoma, Mariona; Massot-Cladera, Malén; Franch, Àngels; Pérez-Cano, Francisco J.; Castell, Margarida
- Abstract
Intensive training and exhausting exercise can disrupt innate and acquired immunity. The flavanone hesperidin has shown immunomodulatory properties in physiological and some pathological conditions, and positive effects on exercise-induced oxidative stress. Nevertheless, it remains uncertain whether it also prevents exhausting exercise-induced immune alterations. The aim of this study was to establish the effect of oral hesperidin supplementation on the systemic immune system in rats following an intensive training and exhausting exercise. For this purpose, female Wistar rats were randomized into an intensive training group or a sedentary group. Intensive training was induced by running in a treadmill 5 days per week (including two exhausting tests) for five weeks. Throughout the training period, 200 mg/kg of hesperidin or vehicle was administered by oral gavage three times per week. At the end, blood, thymus, spleen and macrophages were collected before, immediately after and 24 h after an additional final exhaustion test. Hesperidin supplementation enhanced natural killer cell cytotoxicity and the proportion of phagocytic monocytes, attenuated the secretion of cytokines by stimulated macrophages, prevented the leukocytosis induced by exhaustion and increased the proportion of T helper cells in the thymus, blood and spleen. These results suggest that hesperidin can prevent exhausting exercise-induced immune alterations.
- Subjects
ANIMAL experimentation; CYTOKINES; DIETARY supplements; EXERCISE physiology; IMMUNITY; KILLER cells; MACROPHAGES; MONOCYTES; PHAGOCYTES; RATS; T cells; OXIDATIVE stress; EXERCISE intensity; FLAVANONES; PHARMACODYNAMICS
- Publication
Nutrients, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 5, p1291
- ISSN
2072-6643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nu12051291