Ribose: More than a simple sugar?

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 254-257

  Dhanoa, Teginder S ^b   Housner, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; RIBOSE;

ATHLETE; DIARRHEA; ERGOMETRY; EXERCISE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; HYPERURICOSURIA; NAUSEA; REVIEW; ROWING; STRENGTH; SUPPLEMENTATION;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RIBOSE;

EID: 34547735647     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0041-8     Document Type: Review

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