An acute bout of high-intensity interval training increases the nuclear abundance of PGC-1α and activates mitochondrial biogenesis in human skeletal muscle

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1303-1310

  Little, Jonathan P ^a   Safdar, Adeel ^a,b   Bishop, David ^c   Tarnopolsky, Mark A ^b   Gibala, Martin J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exercise; Mitochondria; Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma coactivator

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CYCLING; CYTOSOL; CYTOSOLIC FRACTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BIOPSY; CELL NUCLEUS; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PROTEIN KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79958851262     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00538.2010     Document Type: Article

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