Restrictions in systemic and locomotor skeletal muscle perfusion, oxygen supply and V̇O2 during high-intensity whole-body exercise in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2621-2635

  Mortensen, Stefan P ^a   Damsgaard, Rasmus ^a   Dawson, Ellen A ^a,b   Secher, Niels H ^a,b   González Alonso, José ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; HEART FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; MUSCLE STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN TISSUE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MUSCLE PERFUSION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 43749105804     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.149401     Document Type: Article

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