Acute and chronic elevation of erythropoietin in the brain improves exercise performance in mice without inducing erythropoiesis

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3884-3890

  Schuler, Beat ^a   Vogel, Johannes ^a   Grenacher, Beat ^a   Jacobs, Robert A ^a   Arras, Margarete ^b   Gassmann, Max ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Cerebral; Doping; Epo; Motivation; Neurotrophic effect

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN TISSUE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EXERCISE; HEMATOCRIT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BRAIN; ERYTHROPOIESIS; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MYOCARDIUM; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STROKE VOLUME;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84865741833     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-191197     Document Type: Article

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