The Transeurope Footrace Project: Longitudinal data acquisition in a cluster randomized mobile MRI observational cohort study on 44 endurance runners at a 64-stage 4,486km transcontinental ultramarathon

BMC Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schütz, Uwe H W ^a   Schmidt Trucksäss, Arno ^b   Knechtle, Beat ^c   Machann, Jürgen ^d   Wiedelbach, Heike ^a   Ehrhardt, Martin ^a   Freund, Wolfgang ^a   Gröninger, Stefan ^e   Brunner, Horst ^a   Schulze, Ingo ^f   Brambs, Hans Jürgen ^a   Billich, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Siemens Healthcare   (Germany)

^f Magnetic Resonance ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CARTILAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDURANCE SPORT; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NOCICEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TEMPERATURE; URINALYSIS; VELOCITY; WHOLE BODY MRI;

EID: 84889953250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-10-78     Document Type: Article

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