Maximal exercise and muscle oxygen extraction in acclimatizing lowlanders and high altitude natives

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 573, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 535-547

  Lundby, Carsten ^a,b   Sander, Mikael ^a   van Hall, Gerrit ^a   Saltin, Bengt ^a   Calbet, José A L ^a,c  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AYMARA (PEOPLE); BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CAPILLARY OXYGEN CONDUCTANCE; DANISH CITIZEN; EXERCISE; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE OXYGEN EXTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 33745104791     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.106765     Document Type: Article

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