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This is a review of
the collection of
the available research regarding
inflammation and muscle growth.
It is by no means complete or
In the case of
This type of
hypertension, atherosclerosis,
Fatty liver
Asthma
Insulin resistance and diabetes
Cardiovascular disease
Alzheimer Disease
And even the aging process
itself.
IL-6,
TNF-Alpha,
CRP,
Insulin,
Blood glucose,
Leptin
IL-18
(Loffreda S 1998; Esposito K
2002).
Role of
acute inflammation is to
remove the injurious stimuli and
damaged tissue and to initiate the
healing process
research using:
Cross Sectional Area
Fractional Synthetic
Rate
Amino Acid Markers
Increases in Muscular
Strength
Increases in Muscular
Weight
High doses of
anti-inflammatory
medicines are able to blunt
muscle growth (Mikkelsen UR,
2009; Trappe TA 2001.)
As a response to muscular
Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatory
Increased levels of
TNF-Alfa can
suppress the AKT/mTOR pathway
and increase muscle catabolism
(Lang CH, 2007; Garcia-Martinez
1993; Jansen, 2005)
Lack of
2010)
High levels of
Baseline measurements of
Levels of
inflammatory markers
(IL-6) remained elevated longer into
the recovery period following and
acute bout of exercise in patients
with inflammatory diseases as
opposed to healthy controls (Ploeger
HE, 2009)