Optimal hematocrit for maximal exercise performance in acute and chronic erythropoietin-treated mice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 419-423

  Schuler, Beat ^a   Arras, Margarete ^a,b   Keller, Stephan ^a,b   Rettich, Andreas ^a   Lundby, Carsten ^a   Vogel, Johannes ^a   Gassmann, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blood viscosity; Doping; Excessive erythrocytosis; Exercise performance; Hemolysis

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; PHENYLHYDRAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR PERFORMANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; EXHAUSTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART WORK; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE; WORK CAPACITY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BLOOD VOLUME; ERYTHROPOIETIN; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCARDIUM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 76249112614     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0912924107     Document Type: Article

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