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ArticleOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2015

Caloric Restriction Effect on Proinflammatory Cytokines, Growth Hormone, and Steroid Hormone Concentrations during Exercise in Judokas.

Salma Abedelmalek, Hamdi Chtourou, Nizar Souissi, Zouhair Tabka

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Article in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Salma AbedelmalekDepartment of Physiology, Sousse Faculty of Medicine, Avenue Mohamed Karoui, 4002 Sousse, Tunisia.
Hamdi ChtourouResearch Laboratory "Sports Performance Optimization" National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports (CNMSS), Tunis, Tunisia.
Nizar SouissiResearch Laboratory "Sports Performance Optimization" National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports (CNMSS), Tunis, Tunisia.
Zouhair TabkaDepartment of Physiology, Sousse Faculty of Medicine, Avenue Mohamed Karoui, 4002 Sousse, Tunisia.
Centre National de la Médecine et des Sciences des Sports · TNUniversity of Sousse · TN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of caloric restriction on the immune and hormonal responses during exercise in judo athletes. In a randomised order, 11 male judokas (age: 20.45 ± 0.51; height: 1.71 ± 0.3 m; and body weight: 75.9 ± 3.1 kg) participate in this study during a period of weight maintenance (baseline) and after 7 days of caloric restriction (CR). All subjects performed the Special Judo Fitness Test (SJFT) during the two conditions. Values for nutrient intakes were obtained from a 7 d food record kept during a period of weight maintenance and after a 7-day food restriction (-5~6 MJ/day). Our results showed that CR resulted in significant decreases in body weight (P < 0.05) and performance (P < 0.05). However, heart rate and SJFT index (P < 0.05) increase significantly during CR in comparison to baseline. Moreover, exercise leads to a significant increase in testosterone, cortisol, growth hormone (GH), leukocytes, neutrophils, TNF-α, and IL-6, in both CR and baseline conditions. Compared to baseline, TNF-α and IL-6 were significantly higher during CR condition (P < 0.05). Additionally, CR leads to an increase in cortisol and GH (P < 0.05) and a decrease in testosterone concentrations (P < 0.05).

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ExerciseAthletesBody WeightCaloric RestrictionCytokinesEnergy IntakeGrowth HormoneHeart RateHumansHydrocortisoneInterleukin-6MaleMartial ArtsTestosteroneTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaYoung AdultCytokinesGrowth HormoneHydrocortisoneInterleukin-6TestosteroneTNF protein, humanTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID26075039
PMCPMC4446567
OpenAlexW1572208576

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