The lactate paradox revisited in lowlanders during acclimatization to 4100 m and in high-altitude natives

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1117-1129

  van Hall, G ^a,b   Lundby, C ^a   Araoz, M ^a   Calbet, J A L ^a   Sander, M ^a   Saltin, B ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; CREATININE; GLYCOGEN; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN; PYRUVIC ACID;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BOLIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY YIELD; EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; AMBIENT AIR; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HEART RATE; MUSCLE LEVEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; BOLIVIA; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POPULATION GROUPS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61649103127     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.160846     Document Type: Article

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