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Bente Klarlund Pedersen

Rigshospitalet
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Exercise as medicine–evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in 26 different chronic diseases

BK Pedersen, B Saltin - … journal of medicine & science in sports, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review provides the reader with the up‐to‐date evidence‐based basis for prescribing
exercise as medicine in the treatment of 26 different diseases: psychiatric diseases (…

The anti-inflammatory effect of exercise

AMW Petersen, BK Pedersen - Journal of applied …, 2005 - journals.physiology.org
Regular exercise offers protection against all-cause mortality, primarily by protection against
cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. The latter disorders have been …

Muscles, exercise and obesity: skeletal muscle as a secretory organ

BK Pedersen, MA Febbraio - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2012 - nature.com
During the past decade, skeletal muscle has been identified as a secretory organ. Accordingly,
we have suggested that cytokines and other peptides that are produced, expressed and …

[HTML][HTML] IL-6 mediates hypoferremia of inflammation by inducing the synthesis of the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin

…, C Keller, S Taudorf, BK Pedersen… - The Journal of …, 2004 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Hypoferremia is a common response to systemic infections or generalized inflammatory
disorders. In mouse models, the development of hypoferremia during inflammation requires …

[HTML][HTML] Gut microbiota in human adults with type 2 diabetes differs from non-diabetic adults

…, DS Nielsen, AS Andreasen, BK Pedersen… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Recent evidence suggests that there is a link between metabolic diseases and
bacterial populations in the gut. The aim of this study was to assess the differences between …

Evidence for prescribing exercise as therapy in chronic disease

BK Pedersen, B Saltin - … journal of medicine & science in sports, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Considerable knowledge has accumulated in recent decades concerning the significance
of physical activity in the treatment of a number of diseases, including diseases that do not …

Muscle as an endocrine organ: focus on muscle-derived interleukin-6

BK Pedersen, MA Febbraio - Physiological reviews, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Skeletal muscle has recently been identified as an endocrine organ. It has, therefore, been
suggested that cytokines and other peptides that are produced, expressed, and released by …

[HTML][HTML] Exercise and the immune system: regulation, integration, and adaptation

BK Pedersen, L Hoffman-Goetz - Physiological reviews, 2000 - journals.physiology.org
… were mobilized to the circulation, and telomere lengths in CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes
were significantly shorter compared with cells isolated at rest (Bruunsgaard and Pedersen, …

[HTML][HTML] Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads

…, T Nieto, J O'Grady, HE Olsen, BS Pedersen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
We report the sequencing and assembly of a reference genome for the human GM12878
Utah/Ceph cell line using the MinION (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) nanopore sequencer. …

[PDF][PDF] Position statement part one: immune function and exercise

…, N Bishop, M Fleshner, C Green, BK Pedersen… - 2011 - eir-isei.de
… show marked changes in T and B cell functions provided that blood samples were taken at
least 24 h after the last exercise bout. In contrast, T and B cell functions appear to be sensitive …