ArticleJournal of exercise rehabilitation2023
Moderate- to fast-walking improves immunocytes through a positive change of muscle contractility in old women: a pilot study.
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- A randomized controlled trial effect of forest hiking on tensor muscle function, erythrocyte factors, and leukocytes' subsets in older adults: a pilot study.Journal of exercise rehabilitation · 2025Article
- A Novel Method for Identifying Frailty and Quantifying Muscle Strength Using the Six-Minute Walking Test.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Characteristics of Age Classification into Five-Year Intervals to Explain Sarcopenia and Immune Cells in Older Adults.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to examine whether compared with a program without walking, intervention programs with three types of walking can improve the muscle property and immunocytes in elderly women. Thirty-two subjects were randomly assigned to control group (CON), slow walking group (SWG), moderate walking group (MWG), and fast walking group (FWG). Three types of walking on treadmill were 30 min a day, 5 days/wk for 12 weeks. Muscle contraction time (Tc), maximum displacement (Dm), and immunocytes were tested by tensiomyography and flow cytometry. After the intervention, FWG had an increasing tendency in the muscle mass compared with other three groups. Tc of biceps femoris (BF) decreased in CON and SWG, while Tc of BF in MWG and FWG (30.58%±23.71%) increased. It was similar in the rectus femoris (RF). Although Dm of BF and RF increased in CON and SWG, those decreased in MWG and FWG. Leucocytes of CON and SWG had a decreasing tendency, those of MWG (9.65%±13.01%) and FWG (13.01%± 13.58%) increased. In the neutrophil, only CON decreased, whereas the three groups showed an increasing tendency. Helper T cell was increased only in FWG (19.61%±19.94%), showing significant differences between groups (
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