Neuromuscular consequences of an extreme mountain ultra-marathon

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Millet, Guillaume Y ^a,b   Tomazin, Katja ^a,b   Verges, Samuel ^c   Vincent, Christopher ^a,b   Bonnefoy, Régis ^a,b   Boisson, Renée Claude ^d   Gergelé, Laurent ^a,e   Féasson, Léonard ^a,b   Martin, Vincent ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^c University Grenoble Alpes   (France)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; MYOGLOBIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE INJURY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ELAGATIS;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL EXERTION; RUNNING;

EID: 79952066490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017059     Document Type: Article

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