Effect of L-carnitine supplementation on endurance exercise in normobaric/normoxic and hypobaric/hypoxic conditions

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 169-176

  Panjwani, Usha ^a   Thakur, Lalan ^a   Anand, Jag Parvesh ^a   Singh, Som Nath ^a   Amitabh, ^a   Singh, Shashi Bala ^a   Banerjee, Pratul Kumar ^a  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Endurance exercise; High altitude; L carnitine

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 35148816497     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/PR45-05.1     Document Type: Article

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