Group III/IV muscle afferents limit the intramuscular metabolic perturbation during whole body exercise in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 594, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 5303-5315

  Blain, Gregory M ^a   Mangum, Tyler S ^b   Sidhu, Simranjit K ^c,e   Weavil, Joshua C ^b   Hureau, Thomas J ^a,c   Jessop, Jacob E ^c   Bledsoe, Amber D ^c   Richardson, Russell S ^b,c,d   Amann, Markus ^b,c,d  

^a University of Nice Sophia Antipolis   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; LACTIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID; FENTANYL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE TRAINING; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE METABOLISM; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RELAXATION TIME; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; EXERCISE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; INNERVATION; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMINO ACIDS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BLOOD GLUCOSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PULMONARY VENTILATION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; TRYPTOPHAN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978204356     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP272283     Document Type: Article

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