Making muscles "stronger": Exercise, nutrition, drugs

Journal of Musculoskeletal Neuronal Interactions

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-174

  Aagaard, Per ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ergogenic supplementation; Muscle adaptation; Neural adaptation; Resistance training

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; CREATINE; DNA; GROWTH FACTOR; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

CELL ACTIVATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; EXERCISE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NUTRITION; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SATELLITE CELL; SUPPLEMENTATION; TISSUE INJURY; UPREGULATION;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 3042732137     PISSN: 11087161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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