Growth hormone isoform responses to GABA ingestion at rest and after exercise

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-110

  Powers, Michael E ^a,d   Yarrow, Joshua F ^b,c   Mccoy, Sean C ^b   Borst, Stephen E ^b,c  

^a Shenendoah University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Division of Athletic Training   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Gamma amino butyric acid; ifGH; Resistance training

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GROWTH HORMONE; PLACEBO; SUCROSE;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INGESTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAINING; VENOUS BLOOD;

AMINO ACIDS; EXERCISE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REST; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38049023548     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e318158b518     Document Type: Article

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