Acute ascorbic acid ingestion increases skeletal muscle blood flow and oxygen consumption via local vasodilation during graded handgrip exercise in older adults

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 309, Issue 2, 2015, Pages H360-H368

  Richards, Jennifer C ^a   Crecelius, Anne R ^a   Larson, Dennis G ^b   Dinenno, Frank A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Sympathetic vasoconstriction; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PLACEBO;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; ARM EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GAS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HAND GRIP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; REST; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VENOUS BLOOD; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AGE; AGING; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG EFFECTS; FOREARM; HAND STRENGTH; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ASCORBIC ACID; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 84937423349     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00209.2015     Document Type: Article

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