Evidence that reduced skeletal muscle recruitment explains the lactate paradox during exercise at high altitude

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 737-738

  Noakes, T D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; ANAEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HYPOXIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN; HUMAN; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BRAIN; CARDIAC OUTPUT; EXERCISE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 61949099882     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.90410.2008     Document Type: Short Survey

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