Skeletal muscle: Microcirculatory adaptation to metabolic demand

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 117-123

  Hepple, Russell T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capillarization; Hypoxia; Mitochondria; Plasticity; Training; V O(2max)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MICROCIRCULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MUSCLE METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 0033969602     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-200001000-00018     Document Type: Article

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