Scaling maximum oxygen uptake using lower leg muscle volume provides further insight into the pitfalls of whole body-mass power laws [9]

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1006-1007

  Nevill, Alan ^a   Holder, Roger ^b   Markovic, Goran ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; LETTER; LOWER LEG; MUSCLE MASS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33748470529     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00410.2006     Document Type: Letter

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