The Effect of Exercise on the Distribution of Corpuscles in the Blood Stream

Exercise-Induced Monocytosis and Modulation of Monocyte Function

“…Exercise has a well-documented effect on peripheral white blood cells. Our study endorses earlier findings that short-term exercise results in lymphocytosis (1,2), while after endurance exercise a marked granulocytosis prevails (3)(4)(5). The pronounced lymphocytes after acute exercise and the marginal increase of lymphocytes after endurance exercise are primarily due to non-rosette-forming cells.…”

Exercise-Induced Thrombocytosis

“…unchanged from the pre-exercise level [6,9], although I saacs and G ordon [5], judging only on the appearances of blood films, con cluded that the platelet count at the end of a marathon race was considerably elevated. In contrast, most workers have found that short periods of brisk exercise induce a transient thrombocytosis [3,10,11].…”

Overview: Exercise immunology

“…Exercise immunology is often thought of as a relatively new field of research; however, scientific findings have been published for over a century, 1 with early simplistic studies investigating the effects of exercise on infections 1,2 and changes in peripheral blood cells. [3][4][5] Exercise immunology has more recently brought together the strengths of the disciplines of immunology, sports science and sports medicine. Over the past two decades, interest in the effects of exercise on the immune system has led to a rapid growth in research articles 6 and to the formation of the International Society of Exercise Immunology in 1993.…”