Infusion with the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine attenuates early adaptive responses to exercise in human skeletal muscle

Acta Physiologica

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 382-392

  Petersen, A C ^a,b   McKenna, M J ^b   Medved, I ^b   Murphy, K T ^b   Brown, M J ^c   Della Gatta, P ^a   Cameron Smith, D ^a,d  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Exercise adaptation; Mitogen activated protein kinase; N acetylcysteine; Nuclear transcription factor kappa B; Signalling pathways

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INTERLEUKIN 6; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 14; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; FATIGUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE EXERCISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIOXIDANTS; BICYCLING; BIOPSY; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXERCISE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; I-KAPPA B PROTEINS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERLEUKIN-6; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NF-KAPPA B; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOSPHORYLATION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863392989     PISSN: 17481708     EISSN: 17481716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02344.x     Document Type: Article

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