The effects of face cooling during hyperthermic exercise in man: Evidence for an integrated thermal, neuroendocrine and behavioural response

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 187-195

  Mündel, Toby ^a   Bunn, Sabrina J ^a   Hooper, Paula L ^a   Jones, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; COOLING; FACE; FOREHEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTHERMIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SKIN; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33846211806     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2006.034934     Document Type: Article

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