The effect of L-arginine administration on muscle force and power in postmenopausal women

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 307-311

  Fricke, Oliver ^a   Baecker, Natalie ^b   Heer, Martina ^b   Tutlewski, Baerbel ^a   Schoenau, Eckhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross sectional muscle area; L arginine; Maximal isometric grip force; Nitric oxide; Peak jump force; Peak jump power

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUCOSE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARGININE; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49849090907     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2008.00809.x     Document Type: Article

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