Metabolic and vascular limb differences affected by exercise, gender, age and disease

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1792-1796

  Richardson, Russell S ^a,e   Secher, Niels H ^b   Tschakovsky, Michael E ^c   Proctor, David N ^d   Wray, D Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Arms; Legs; Vascular control; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AGING; ARM; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXERCISE; GENDER; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; LEG; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE METABOLISM; PHYSICAL DISEASE; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AGE FACTORS; ARM; CARDIAC OUTPUT; EXERCISE; HUMANS; LEG; METABOLIC DISEASES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEX FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 33749455113     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000229568.17284.ab     Document Type: Conference Paper

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