Salivary immunity and lower respiratory tract infections in non-elite marathon runners.

Elisabet CantóEmma RocaLidia PereaAna Rodrigo-TroyanoGuillermo Suarez-QuartinJordi GinerAnna FeliuJose Manuel SoriaLexa NescolardeSilvia VidalOriol Sibila

Published in: PloS one (2018)

LRTI are common after a marathon race in non-elite healthy runners. Changes in salivary antimicrobial proteins and chemokines are related to the presence of LRTI and correlate with systemic defense cells, which suggest an important role of salivary immunity in the development of LRTI in non-elite marathon runners.

Keyphrases

respiratory tract
body composition
induced apoptosis
cell cycle arrest
staphylococcus aureus
endoplasmic reticulum stress
drug induced