Creatine supplementation - Part I: Performance, clinical chemistry, and muscle volume

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1763-1769

  Kamber, Matthias ^b   Koster, Markus ^b   Kreis, Roland ^b   Walker, Gianni ^b   Boesch, Chris ^a   Hoppeler, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ergogenic aid; Magnetic resonance imaging; Performance; Sprint test

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATININE; LACTIC ACID; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RUNNING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0033371550     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199912000-00011     Document Type: Article

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