The Impact of Latent Herpesvirus Infections on the Mobilization of Recent Thymic Emigrants and Extrathymic T-cells in Response to Acute Aerobic Exercise in Man
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Abstract
T-cells typically mature in the thymus gland, which eventually succumbs to age-related atrophy, resulting in a decreased naïve T-cell repertoire in middle to later years. Aged individuals and those with persistently reactivating herpesvirus infections have an increased reliance on the extrathymic maturation of T-cells due to the shrinking effects that age and latent viral infection has on the naïve T-cell repertoire. Acute bouts of aerobic exercise are known to mobilize T-cells that exhibit both a naïve and late-stage differentiation phenotype into the blood compartment; however, it is not known if recent thymic emigrants (RTE) or extrathymic T-cells contribute to the lymphocytosis associated with exercise. PURPOSE: To examine the impact of latent cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection on the mobilization of RTE and extrathymic T-cells in response to acute exercise. METHODS: Otherwise healthy CMV or EBV seropositive (CMV+ or EBV+) and CMV or EBV seronegative (CMV- or EBV-) males (age 23-35y) completed a 30-min cycling protocol at 85% of maximum power. Lymphocytes isolated from whole blood before, immediately after, and one hour after exercise were surface stained with monoclonal antibodies to identify phenotypes of RTE (CD103+/CD62L-) and extrathymic T-cells believed to mature in the liver (CD3+/CD25-/CD122+) and the epithelium of the small intestine (CD3+/CD4-/CD8-; TCRγδ+/ CD8αα+; CD3-/CD2+/CD7+). Cell populations were analyzed by flow cytometry and antibodies against CMV and EBV were determined in serum by ELISA. RESULTS: Preliminary analyses show that the proportion of RTE among the total CD3+/CD4+ or CD3+/CD8+ T-cell subsets did not change immediately after exercise, but was elevated above baseline 1h later due to the preferential egress of late stage differentiated T-cells. Neither CMV nor EBV status influenced the proportions of RTE in blood in response to exercise. T-cells mainly found in intestinal mucosa (i.e. CD3+/CD4-/CD8- and CD3-/CD2+/CD7+) were found to increase in blood immediately after exercise; an effect that appeared to be more pronounced in EBV but not CMV-infected subjects. CONCLUSION: An acute bout of aerobic exercise elicits the mobilization of T-cells exhibiting phenotype characteristics of extrathymically matured T-cells, suggesting that extrathymic T-cell mobilization contributes to the lymphocytosis associated with acute exercise. This effect appears to be amplified in subjects carrying a latent EBV but not CMV infection. Future research should attempt to establish the impact of long-term exercise and latent herpesvirus infections on the frequency of RTE and extrathymic T-cells in the aged, as this could have significant implications for age-associated immune dysfunction.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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