Menstrual cycle phase and sex influence muscle glycogen utilization and glucose turnover during moderate-intensity endurance exercise

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Devries, Michaela C ^a   Hamadeh, Mazen J ^a   Phillips, Stuart M ^a   Tarnopolsky, Mark A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate metabolism; Exercise; Humans; Menstrual phase; Sex differences; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

FAT; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; LACTIC ACID; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOGEN MUSCLE LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BIOPSY; DEUTERIUM; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PROGESTERONE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33749334619     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00700.2005     Document Type: Article

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