Exercise intensity and muscle hypertrophy in blood flow-restricted limbs and non-restricted muscles: A brief review

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 247-252

  Abe, Takashi ^a   Loenneke, Jeremy P ^a   Fahs, Christopher A ^a   Rossow, Lindy M ^a   Thiebaud, Robert S ^a   Bemben, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow occlusion; Low intensity exercise; Resistance training

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; MUSCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN S6; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; EXERCISE INTENSITY; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HIP; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; TRUNK; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; ISCHEMIA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RESISTANCE TRAINING;

EID: 84862163587     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2012.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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