What limits performance during whole-body incremental exercise to exhaustion in humans?

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 593, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 4631-4648

  Morales Alamo, David ^a   Losa Reyna, José ^a   Torres Peralta, Rafael ^a   Martin Rincon, Marcos ^a,b   Perez Valera, Mario ^a   Curtelin, David ^a,c   Ponce González, Jesús Gustavo ^a   Santana, Alfredo ^a,c   Calbet, José A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID; PROTON; PYRUVIC ACID;

ADULT; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ENERGY; ENERGY RESERVE; EXERCISE; EXHAUSTION; GLYCOLYSIS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; INSPIRED OXYGEN FRACTION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MUSCLE LEVEL; MUSCLE PH; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PH; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY EXCHANGE RATIO; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; TIDAL VOLUME; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TURNOVER TIME; WHOLE BODY INCREMENTAL EXERCISE; YOUNG ADULT; EXERCISE TEST; FATIGUE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADULT; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FATIGUE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPOXIA; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOSPHOCREATINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944276184     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP270487     Document Type: Article

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