Muscle mitochondrial capacity exceeds maximal oxygen delivery in humans

Mitochondrion

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-307

  Boushel, Robert ^a,c   Gnaiger, Erich ^b   Calbet, Jose A L ^a   Gonzalez Alonso, Jose ^a   Wright Paradis, Cynthia ^a   Sondergaard, Hans ^a   Ara, Ignacio ^a   Helge, Jørn W ^a,c   Saltin, Bengt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Exercise; Humans; Mitochondria; Oxygen delivery; Oxygen uptake

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM EXERCISE; ARTICLE; CYCLING; DELTOID MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RESPIROMETRY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; OXYGEN;

EID: 79251596520     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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