Blood ammonia response during incremental and steady-state exercise in military staff

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1007-1011

  Yges, Cristina ^a   Ureña, Rosario ^a   León, Carmen ^a   López Mojares, Luis M ^a   Chicharro, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Exercise; Lactate; Muscle metabolism; Purine nucleotide cycle

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD SAMPLING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GAS EXCHANGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RUNNING; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AMMONIA; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RUNNING; SPAIN; SPORTS; TIME FACTORS;

DUDLEYA EDULIS;

EID: 0033401345     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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