Hypoxia and exercise provoke both lactate release and lactate oxidation by the human brain

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3012-3020

  Overgaard, Morten ^a   Rasmussen, Peter ^a,c,d   Bohm, Aske M ^a   Seifert, Thomas ^a   Brassard, Patrice ^a   Zaar, Morten ^a   Homann, Pernille ^a   Evans, Kevin A ^b   Nielsen, Henning B ^a   Secher, Niels H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d International Center for Research and Research Training in Endocrine Disruption of Male Reproduction and Child Health   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral metabolism; Tracers

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; LACTIC ACID; TRACER;

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; DILUTION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REST; TURNOVER TIME; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ANOXIA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863204054     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-191999     Document Type: Article

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