Altitude-induced changes in muscle contractile properties

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-182

  Perrey, Stéphane ^a,b   Rupp, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Exercise; Muscle fibers; Skeletal muscle; Tolerance to high altitude; Work capacity

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; CALCIUM; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 70349217079     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2008.1093     Document Type: Article

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