Resistance exercise training improves age-related declines in leg vascular conductance and rejuvenates acute leg blood flow responses to feeding and exercise

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 347-353

  Phillips, Bethan ^a,b   Williams, John ^a,c   Atherton, Philip ^a   Smith, Kenneth ^a   Hildebrandt, Wulf ^a   Rankin, Debbie ^a   Greenhaff, Paul ^a,b   MacDonald, Ian ^b   Rennie, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL DERBY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circulation; Muscle; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL; BODY COMPOSITION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION; VASODILATATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; BODY COMPOSITION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RESISTANCE TRAINING; VASODILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863141614     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01031.2011     Document Type: Article

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