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J Appl Physiol 87: 699-710, 1999;
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Vol. 87, Issue 2, 699-710, August 1999

Immune changes in humans during cold exposure: effects of prior heating and exercise

I. K. M. Brenner1, J. W. Castellani2, C. Gabaree2, A. J. Young2, J. Zamecnik1, R. J. Shephard1,3,4, and P. N. Shek1,3,5

1 Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Toronto, Ontario M3M 3B9; 2 US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts 01760; 3 Faculty of Physical Education and Health,4 Department of Public Health Sciences, and 5 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M3M 3B9

This study examined the immunological responses to cold exposure together with the effects of pretreatment with either passive heating or exercise (with and without a thermal clamp). On four separate occasions, seven healthy men [mean age 24.0 ± 1.9 (SE) yr, peak oxygen consumption = 45.7 ± 2.0 ml · kg-1 · min-1] sat for 2 h in a climatic chamber maintained at 5°C. Before exposure, subjects participated in one of four pretreatment conditions. For the thermoneutral control condition, subjects remained seated for 1 h in a water bath at 35°C. In another pretreatment, subjects were passively heated in a warm (38°C) water bath for 1 h. In two other pretreatments, subjects exercised for 1 h at 55% peak oxygen consumption (once immersed in 18°C water and once in 35°C water). Core temperature rose by 1°C during passive heating and during exercise in 35°C water and remained stable during exercise in 18°C water (thermal clamping). Subsequent cold exposure induced a leukocytosis and granulocytosis, an increase in natural killer cell count and activity, and a rise in circulating levels of interleukin-6. Pretreatment with exercise in 18°C water augmented the leukocyte, granulocyte, and monocyte response. These results indicate that acute cold exposure has immunostimulating effects and that, with thermal clamping, pretreatment with physical exercise can enhance this response. Increases in levels of circulating norepinephrine may account for the changes observed during cold exposure and their modification by changes in initial status.

passive heating; hypothermia; immune function; leukocytes; natural killer cells; interleukin-6


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