Four weeks of normobaric "live high-train low" do not alter muscular or systemic capacity for maintaining pH and K+ homeostasis during intense exercise

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2027-2036

  Nordsborg, N B ^b   Siebenmann, C ^a   Jacobs, R A ^a   Rasmussen, P ^a   Diaz, V ^a   Robach, P ^c   Lundby, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Ecole Nationale de Ski et d'Alpinisme   (France)

Author keywords

Hypoxia; Muscle; Performance; Wingate

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); BICARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; LACTIC ACID; LANTHANUM; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BICARBONATES; CARBON DIOXIDE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; LANTHANUM; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POTASSIUM; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862564774     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01353.2011     Document Type: Article

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