Gene expression profiles in T-lymphocytes and Monocytes of participants of the Tour de France 2005-GSE5105

12 professional cyclists from two german top teams gave written agreement to participate to this study. We collected 12ml of whole blood at each time point and isolated T-lymphocytes out of 4ml and monocytes out of 8ml whole blood. The experimental groups are divided into rest (6 replicates in Tcells/ 7 replicates in Monocytes), start (10 replicates in each cell type) and final (8 replicates in Tcells/ 9 replicates in Monocytes). This means that we collected samples at the beginning and the end of the Tour de France and during the annual rest period of the athletes.

Büttner P, Vogt S, Heinrich L, Mosig S, Schmid A, Schubert YO, Dickhuth H,Brandenburg A, Jakob E, Baumstark M, Funke H