Cellular Physiology and Metabolism of Physical Exercise

This new edition discusses classical aspects of cellular physiology and the metabolism of physical exercise, as well as novel topics like exercise in transplantation and exercise in beta-cell failure, which mark the frontiers of research in sport-related sciences and research. The team of authors together with the editor are world-renowned experts in the field of physiology and metabolism applied to sport sciences. In order to make the book answering also to current pandemic clinical issue, this second edition includes new chapters, specifically dealing with: - specific physical exercises adapt to patients with obesity or with diabetes mellitus (type 1 and type2); - specific physical exercises adapt to immune modulate the non-diabetic and the diabetic individual and to reduce the likelihood of contagion by respiratory viruses like SARS-2 coronavirus; - specific physical exercises aimed to rehabilitate patient after the COVID-19 disease as well as to treat patients with the “long COVID” syndrome. Exercise physiologists, biologists and physicians will benefit from this book. However, the comprehensive nature of the content makes this publication suitable also for university classes of graduate and undergraduate students