Respiratory

Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes a lesion-dependent impairment in cardiorespiratory function that may limit exercise capacity. The aims of this thesis were to describe cardiorespiratory function in highly-trained athletes with low-cervical SCI, and to investigate whether abdomina…

Introduction: Vitamin D is a micronutrient that possesses immunomodulatory actions. Higher vitamin D status has been associated with decreased incidence of acute respiratory infections (ARI) in a number of observational studies. However, mechanistic in vitro work investigating e…