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Section Type: METHODS

Text: At the beginning of the study (normal diet) and at the end of each treatment phase, the following pre-exercise and postexercise measures were assessed : (1) pulmonary function ; (2) induced sputum differential cell count percentage and proinflammatory eicosanoid metabolite (leukotriene C4 [LTC4] - leukotriene E4 [LTE4] and prostaglandin D2 [PGD2]) and cytokine (interleukin [IL] -1 beta and tumor necrosis factor [TNF] - alpha) concentrations ; and (3) eicosanoid metabolites leukotriene B4 (LTB4) and leukotriene B5 (LTB (5)) generation from activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNLs).