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. 2022 Aug 22;7(1):292.
doi: 10.1038/s41392-022-01116-6.

Supporting tumor therapy by exercise: boosting T cell immunity by myokines

Kristina Gebhardt  1 , Karsten Krüger  2
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Supporting tumor therapy by exercise: boosting T cell immunity by myokines

Kristina Gebhardt et al. Signal Transduct Target Ther. .
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Systemic effects physical activity and associated local effects of exercise on the local tumor environment. Various modalities of exercise cause the release of epinephrine, which has a mobilizing effect on T cells and NK cells via adrenergic receptors. Myokines then activate and direct immune cells into the tumor, which can support therapy using checkpoint inhibitors (created by BioRender)
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