Immediately after the race, we observed leukocytosis, neutrophilia, and an increase in the muscle damage markers, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, TNF-α, MIP-1, decorin, GDF-15, BDNF, follistatin, and FGF-21, owing to a reduction in the myostatin, musclin, IL-15 and apelin levels which were maintained reduced 72 h after the race (Figure 9). Here, DCN is linked to Increased total leukocyte count.