Endurance training enhances BDNF release from the human brain

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Seifert, Thomas ^a   Brassard, Patrice ^a   Wissenberg, Mads ^a   Rasmussen, Peter ^a   Nordby, Pernille ^a   Stallknecht, Bente ^a   Adser, Helle ^a   Jakobsen, Anne H ^a   Pilegaard, Henriette ^a   Nielsen, Henning B ^a   Secher, Niels H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

BDNF; Brain metabolism; Training

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ADULT; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRAINING; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REST; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 75449112809     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00525.2009     Document Type: Article

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