Table of contents

Original articles

• Oral administration of the probiotic Lactobacillus fermentum VRI-003 and mucosal immunity in endurance athletes

  (13 February, 2008)

  A J Cox, D B Pyne, P U Saunders, P A Fricker
• The effect of exercise on innate mucosal immunity (22 May, 2008)

  N P West, D B Pyne, J M Kyd, G M Renshaw, P A Fricker, A W Cripps
• Patterns of exercise-related inflammatory response in sickle cell trait carriers (22 May, 2008)

  Julien Tripette, Philippe Connes, Mona Hedreville, Maryse Etienne-Julan, Laurent Marlin, Olivier Hue, Marie-Dominique Hardy-Dessources
• Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and the incidence of type 2 diabetes in a prospective study of men (26 July, 2009) Free

  John C Sieverdes, Xuemei Sui, Duck-chul Lee, Timothy S Church, Amanda McClain, Gregory A Hand, Steven N Blair
• Polar Activity Watch 200: a new device to accurately assess energy expenditure (15 April, 2008)

  J V Brugniaux, A Niva, I Pulkkinen, R M T Laukkanen, J-P Richalet, A P Pichon
• The feasibility of a home-based moderate-intensity physical activity intervention in obese children and adolescents (7 May, 2008)

  Louise S Conwell, Stewart G Trost, Luke Spence, Wendy J Brown, Jennifer A Batch
• Cardiovascular fitness modifies the associations between physical activity and abdominal adiposity in children and adolescents: the European Youth Heart Study (7 May, 2008) Free

  F B Ortega, J R Ruiz, A Hurtig-Wennlöf, G Vicente-Rodríguez, N S Rizzo, M J Castillo, M Sjöström
• Secular trends and distributional changes in health and fitness performance variables of 10–14-year-old children in New Zealand between 1991 and 2003 (16 May, 2008)

  H M Albon, M J Hamlin, J J Ross
• Six-minute walk test in children with chronic conditions (16 May, 2008)

  J Hassan, J van der Net, P J M Helders, B J Prakken, T Takken
• Effects of sports activity in athletes with bicuspid aortic valve and mild aortic regurgitation (3 June, 2008)

  G Galanti, L Stefani, L Toncelli, M C R Vono, R Mercuri, N Maffulli
• The effects of the 5-HT_2C agonist m-chlorophenylpiperazine on elite athletes with unexplained underperformance syndrome (overtraining)

  (16 May, 2008)

  R Budgett, N Hiscock, R Arida, L M Castell
• Hormonal responses to a single session of wholebody vibration exercise in older individuals (15 April, 2008)

  M Cardinale, R L Soiza, J B Leiper, A Gibson, W R Primrose
• The reliability measurements of lateral scapular slide test at three different degrees of shoulder joint abduction (23 September, 2008)

  A Shadmehr, H Bagheri, N N Ansari, H Sarafraz