ArticlePloS one2013
Fibromyalgia: anti-inflammatory and stress responses after acute moderate exercise.
Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06138171 (Psychological Layers of Nociplastic Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 49 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Psychological Layers of Nociplastic Pain: Cluster Analysis of The Role of Personality Traits, Defence Mechanisms, Central Sensitization, and Childhood Traumatic Experiences in Patients With Chronic Migraine, Fibromyalgia, and Vulvodynia
Who cites it
49 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of non-pharmacological traditional Chinese medicine combined with conventional therapy in treating fibromyalgia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Is fibromyalgia associated with a unique cytokine profile? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2021Pooled it
- Whole body vibration exercise training for fibromyalgia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Aerobic exercise training for adults with fibromyalgia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of non-pharmacological interventions on inflammatory biomarker expression in patients with fibromyalgia: a systematic review.Arthritis research & therapy · 2015Pooled it
- Low-Intensity Physical Exercise Improves Pain Catastrophizing and Other Psychological and Physical Aspects in Women with Fibromyalgia: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Trial
- Effects of 15 weeks of resistance exercise on pro-inflammatory cytokine levels in the vastus lateralis muscle of patients with fibromyalgia.Arthritis research & therapy · 2016Trial
- Assessment of the Concomitance of Fibromyalgia in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis.Archives of rheumatology · 2026Article
- Neuroimmune Interactions and Their Role in Immune Cell Trafficking in Cardiovascular Diseases and Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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- Quantitative sensory testing and chronic pain syndromes: a cross-sectional study from TwinsUK.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Inflammation, Autoimmunity, and Infection in Fibromyalgia: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- The Effects of Non-Pharmacological Interventions in Fibromyalgia: A Systematic Review and Metanalysis of Predominants Outcomes.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Influence of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Codiagnosis on the Relationship between Perceived and Objective Psychoneuro-Immunoendocrine Disorders in Women with Fibromyalgia.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Neutrophils infiltrate sensory ganglia and mediate chronic widespread pain in fibromyalgia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- The Biology of Stress Intolerance in Patients with Chronic Pain-State of the Art and Future Directions.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- The Behavior of Muscle Oxygen Saturation, Oxy and Deoxy Hemoglobin during a Fatigue Test in Fibromyalgia.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Physical properties and biological effects of ceramic materials emitting infrared radiation for pain, muscular activity, and musculoskeletal conditions.Photodermatology, photoimmunology & photomedicine · 2023Review
- Elevated high sensitive C-reactive protein in fibromyalgia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized in part by an elevated inflammatory status, and "modified exercise" is currently proposed as being a good therapeutic help for these patients. However, the mechanisms involved in the exercise-induced benefits are still poorly understood. The objective was to evaluate the effect of a single bout of moderate cycling (45 min at 55% VO2 max) on the inflammatory (serum IL-8; chemotaxis and O2 (-) production by neutrophils; and IL-1β, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-10, and IL-18 release by monocytes) and stress (cortisol; NA; and eHsp72) responses in women diagnosed with FM compared with an aged-matched control group of healthy women (HW). IL-8, NA, and eHsp72 were determined by ELISA. Cytokines released by monocytes were determined by Bio-Plex® system (LUMINEX). Cortisol was determined by electrochemoluminiscence, chemotaxis was evaluated in Boyden chambers and O2 (-) production by NBT reduction. In the FM patients, the exercise induced a decrease in the systemic concentration of IL-8, cortisol, NA, and eHsp72; as well as in the neutrophil's chemotaxis and O2 (-) production and in the inflammatory cytokine release by monocytes. This was contrary to the completely expected exercise-induced increase in all those biomarkers in HW. In conclusion, single sessions of moderate cycling can improve the inflammatory status in FM patients, reaching values close to the situation of aged-matched HW at their basal status. The neuroendocrine mechanism seems to be an exercise-induced decrease in the stress response of these patients.
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