(-)-Epicatechin administration and exercising skeletal muscle vascular control and microvascular oxygenation in healthy rats

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Copp, Steven W ^a   Inagaki, Tadakatsu ^b   White, Michael J ^a   Hirai, Daniel M ^a   Ferguson, Scott K ^a   Holdsworth, Clark T ^a   Sims, Gabrielle E ^a   Poole, David C ^a   Musch, Timothy I ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exercise performance; Flavanols; Oxygen delivery; Supplements; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

EPICATECHIN; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE; EXHAUSTION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PHOSPHORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VASCULAR CONDUCTANCE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CATECHIN; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HINDLIMB; KINETICS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RUNNING; VASODILATION;

EID: 84872410748     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00714.2012     Document Type: Article

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