Is hypoxia training good for muscles and exercise performance?

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 525-533

  Vogt, Michael ^a   Hoppeler, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Exercise; Hypoxia; Mitochondria; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ATHLETE; COMPETITION; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MUSCLE FUNCTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; TRAINING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS;

EID: 77952126855     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2010.02.013     Document Type: Review

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