Dengel co-authors paper on immune senescence markers

Donald Dengel, PhD, professor of exercise physiology in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP), is a co-author of an article published in the journal Cancers. The article was entitled “Attenuation of immune senescence markers after intensive cancer therapy through resistance training: a pilot study." The study demonstrated that a 10-week resistance training program in cancer survivor patients was feasible, safe, and led to significant increases in muscle strength and favorable changes in body composition, while simultaneously exerting anti-inflammatory and immune-restorative effects by normalizing baseline transcriptomic, epigenetic, and gut microbiome dysregulations associated with immune senescence.