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| Jeffrey A WoodsSummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois Country: USA Publications
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Cardiovascular exercise training extends influenza vaccine seroprotection in sedentary older adults: the immune function intervention trialJeffrey A Woods
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:2183-91. 2009..To determine whether cardiovascular exercise training resulted in improved antibody responses to influenza vaccination in sedentary elderly people who exhibited poor vaccine responses...- Stronger relationship between central adiposity and C-reactive protein in older women than menRudy J Valentine
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL 61801, USA
Menopause 16:84-9. 2009..The purpose of this study was to determine the sex-specific independent relationships between physical activity, fitness, central and whole body adiposity, and CRP in sedentary older adults... 
Effects of exercise and low-fat diet on adipose tissue inflammation and metabolic complications in obese miceVictoria J Vieira
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 296:E1164-71. 2009..There are unique metabolic consequences of a sedentary lifestyle and HFD that are most evident long term, highlighting the importance of both EX and LFD in preventing obesity-related metabolic disturbances...- C-reactive protein and cardiac vagal activity following resistance exercise training in young African-American and white menKevin S Heffernan
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 296:R1098-105. 2009..Resistance training may be an important lifestyle modification for improving cardiac autonomic health and reducing inflammation in young African-American men... - Effects of a traditional Taiji/Qigong curriculum on older adults' immune response to influenza vaccineYang Yang
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 906 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Med Sport Sci 52:64-76. 2008..Traditional TQ practice improves the antibody response to influenza vaccine in older adults, but further study is needed to determine whether the enhanced response is sufficient to provide definitive protection from influenza infection... - Racial differences in central blood pressure and vascular function in young menKevin S Heffernan
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, Exercise and Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Rehabilitation Education Center, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1207 S Oak St Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 295:H2380-7. 2008.... - Intestinal and systemic immune development and response to vaccination are unaffected by dietary (1,3/1,6)-β-D-glucan supplementation in neonatal pigletsShelly N Hester
Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
Clin Vaccine Immunol 19:1499-508. 2012..Overall, the doses of 1.8, 18, and 90 mg/kg BW of dietary WGP had no effect on intestinal or immune development and did not improve the antibody response to vaccination in neonatal piglets... - Sex impacts the relation between body composition and physical function in older adultsRudy J Valentine
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Menopause 16:518-23. 2009..To determine the sex-specific relationships between physical activity, aerobic fitness, adiposity (%Fat), mineral-free lean mass (MFLM), and balance and gait performance in older adults... 
Exercise speeds cutaneous wound healing in high-fat diet-induced obese miceBrandt D Pence
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 44:1846-54. 2012..Therefore, we investigated whether treadmill exercise could speed cutaneous wound healing in obese, high-fat diet-fed mice...- Sex differences in the relationship between obesity, C-reactive protein, physical activity, depression, sleep quality and fatigue in older adultsRudy J Valentine
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Brain Behav Immun 23:643-8. 2009..Strategies to prevent fatigue may differ in older women and men, especially with regard to inflammation, physical activity and adiposity... - Effects of diet and exercise on metabolic disturbances in high-fat diet-fed miceVictoria J Vieira
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Cytokine 46:339-45. 2009.... - Independent relationship between heart rate recovery and C-reactive protein in older adultsVictoria J Vieira
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Uinversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:747-51. 2007..To examine the independent effect of parasympathetic tone (PST), assessed here according to heart rate recovery (HRR) after exercise, on circulating levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) in 132 elderly participants... - Exercise accelerates cutaneous wound healing and decreases wound inflammation in aged miceK Todd Keylock
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 294:R179-84. 2008..Our data suggest that exercise accelerates the wound healing process in old mice. This improved healing response in the old mice may be the result of an exercise-induced anti-inflammatory response in the wound... - The associations of adiposity, physical activity and inflammation with fatigue in older adultsRudy J Valentine
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Brain Behav Immun 25:1482-90. 2011..In addition to depression and sleep quality, adiposity may represent a potential target for reducing fatigue in older adults... - Arterial wave reflection and vascular autonomic modulation in young and older menKevin S Heffernan
Exercise and Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, and the Exercise Immunology Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Aging Clin Exp Res 20:1-7. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between pressure wave reflection and augmentation from peripheral arteries and peripheral sympathetic vasomotion in young and older men... - Effects of a Taiji and Qigong intervention on the antibody response to influenza vaccine in older adultsYang Yang
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Am J Chin Med 35:597-607. 2007..Traditional TQ practice improves the antibody response to influenza vaccine in older adults, but further study is needed to determine whether the enhanced response is sufficient to provide definitive protection from influenza infection... - Dietary whole glucan particles do not affect antibody or cell-mediated immune responses to influenza virus vaccination in miceBrandt D Pence
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Immunol Invest 41:275-89. 2012.... - Exercise, inflammation, and innate immunityJeffrey A Woods
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 6180, USA
Immunol Allergy Clin North Am 29:381-93. 2009.... - Complexity of force output during static exercise in individuals with Down syndromeKevin S Heffernan
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, Champaign, Ilinois 61820, USA
J Appl Physiol 106:1227-33. 2009..This would suggest a possible link between premature aging and less complex force output in persons with DS... - Macrophages from alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor knockout mice demonstrate increased cholesterol accumulation and decreased cellular paraoxonase expression: a possible link between the nervous system and atherosclerosis developmentKenneth R Wilund
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 390:148-54. 2009..The purpose of this study was to determine if the increased inflammation in alpha7(-/-) mice is associated with enhanced serum and macrophage atherogenicity... - Higher antibody, but not cell-mediated, responses to vaccination in high physically fit elderlyK Todd Keylock
Depatment of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Appl Physiol 102:1090-8. 2007..There was little evidence that HF mounted better cell-mediated immune responses to the Fluzone or TT vaccine measured in peripheral blood cells or to other recall antigens in vivo... - Exercise, inflammation and agingJeffrey A Woods
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana IL, 61801, USA
Aging Dis 3:130-40. 2012..Potential mechanisms will be presented that might explain why exercise may exert an anti-inflammatory effect... - Exercise, inflammation, and innate immunityJeffrey A Woods
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 906 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 6180, USA
Neurol Clin 24:585-99. 2006..Further investigation to confirm or reject these testable hypotheses will allow better application of exercise therapy to treat and prevent illnesses associated with chronic inflammation... - Moderate exercise early after influenza virus infection reduces the Th1 inflammatory response in lungs of miceThomas Lowder
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois and Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Exerc Immunol Rev 12:97-111. 2006..This exercise-induced shift in immune response may be responsible for improved survival after influenza virus infection... - Relation of heart rate recovery after exercise to C-reactive protein and white blood cell countSae Young Jae
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
Am J Cardiol 99:707-10. 2007..In conclusion, slow and abnormal HRR after exercise testing is associated with inflammatory markers, which could contribute to the high incidence of cardiovascular disease in these subjects... - Exercise and respiratory tract viral infectionsStephen A Martin
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
Exerc Sport Sci Rev 37:157-64. 2009.... - Muscle quality, aerobic fitness and fat mass predict lower-extremity physical function in community-dwelling older adultsMark M Misic
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Ill 61801, USA
Gerontology 53:260-6. 2007..Muscle mass, strength and fitness play a role in lower-extremity physical function (LEPF) in older adults; however, the relationships remain inadequately characterized... - Exercise delays allogeneic tumor growth and reduces intratumoral inflammation and vascularizationMark R Zielinski
Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J Appl Physiol 96:2249-56. 2004..These data indicate that daily strenuous exercise may influence tumor growth by affecting the microenvironment of the tumor, resulting in a delay in tumor growth and a more rapid regression...