An adjustable-current swimming pool for the evaluation of endurance capacity of mice

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1843-1849

  Matsumoto, Keitaro ^b   Ishihara, Kengo ^b   Tanaka, Kazunori ^b   Inoue, Kazuo ^b   Fushiki, Tohru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

forced swimming system; swimming capacity; work intensity

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; LACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FORELIMB; GLYCOGEN MUSCLE LEVEL; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0029823010     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1996.81.4.1843     Document Type: Article

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