14719 Jesper Andersen/Peter Schjerling/Bengt Saltin: Muskeln, Gene und Leistungssport. Spektrum 2001/3, 70-75. Laurel MacKinnon: Exercise and immunology. ISSN 1055-1352. The author is senior lecturer at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and active there in research concerning the relationship betweeen training, overtraining, and immune response in elite athletes. 5403 X. Time to throw it in the towel. New Scientist 19 June 1993, 3. Changes found in the brains of ex-boxers are immunochemically similar to those seen in Alzheimer's disease. This is just one of the reasons why the British Medical Association calls for an immediate ban of boxing.