β-Alanine ingestion increases muscle carnosine content and combat specific performance in soldiers

Amino Acids

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 627-636

  Hoffman, Jay R ^a   Landau, Geva ^b   Stout, Jeffrey R ^a   Hoffman, Mattan W ^a   Shavit, Nurit ^c   Rosen, Philip ^d   Moran, Daniel S ^e   Fukuda, David H ^a   Shelef, Ilan ^d   Carmom, Erez ^b   Ostfeld, Ishay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Israel Defense Force Medical Corps Air Force Medical Center   (Israel)

^c MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Exercise; Histidine related compounds; Supplements

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; CARNOSINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FATIGUE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; MUSCLE TISSUE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOLDIER; SUSTAINED RELEASE PREPARATION; TISSUE LEVEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDURANCE; METABOLISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; BETA-ALANINE; CARNOSINE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 84925499810     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-014-1896-7     Document Type: Article

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