Marc Cook and Jeffrey Woods, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Marc Cook and Jeffrey Woods, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois graduate student Marc Cook (left), kinesiology and community health professor Jeffrey Woods and their colleagues found that voluntary exercise on an exercise wheel reduced colitis symptoms and pro-inflammatory gene expression in a mouse model of colitis. Forced (moderate) running on a treadmill had the opposite effect.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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