title: Effect of physical exercise on adoptive experimental auto-immune encephalomyelitis in rats.
abstract: The aim of the study was to determine whether different programmes of exercise influence adoptive monophasic experimental auto-immune encephalomyelitis (adoptive EAE), a paralytic disease mediated by T-cells. Adoptive EAE was induced by the transfer of activated encephalitogenic T-lymphocytes into syngeneic recipients (Lewis rats, n = 85) and its development was followed by two independent observers. The results showed that 2 days of severe exercise (250 and 300 min) performed after the adoptive transfer of EAE slightly delayed the onset of the disease (P <0.008) and the day of its maximal severity (P <0.016) without affecting the overall severity of the disease. When this programme of exercise was performed before the cell transfer, it had no effect (P > 0.05). Two more moderate exercise programmes (5 x 120 min of running at constant speed or 5 x 60 min of running at variable speed, 5 consecutive days) performed between the adoptive transfer and the onset of the disease did not modify the development of the clinical signs of adoptive EAE (P >0.05). These results showed that severe exercise slightly influenced the effector phase of monophasic EAE and confirmed that physical exercise performed before the onset of experimental auto-immune diseases did not exacerbate the clinical signs.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physiologie des Adaptations, Faculte de Medecine Cochin Port-Royal, Université Paris V, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Le Page
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bourdoulous
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Béraud
authors.forename: P O
authors.initials: PO
authors.lastname: Couraud
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rieu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferry
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004681:Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D009043:Motor Activity; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D012420:Running; D013997:Time Factors