Potentiation of cGMP signaling increases oxygen delivery and oxidative metabolism in contracting skeletal muscle of older but not young humans

Physiological Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Nyberg, Michael ^a   Piil, Peter ^a   Egelund, Jon ^a   Sprague, Randy S ^b   Mortensen, Stefan P ^a,c   Hellsten, Ylva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Science ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Exercise; Sildenafil

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AGE; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CEPHALIC VEIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASCULAR CONDUCTANCE; VASODILATATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84980356180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12508     Document Type: Article

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