Exercise efficiency relates with mitochondrial content and function in older adults

Physiological Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Broskey, Nicholas T ^a   Boss, Andreas ^b   Fares, Elie Jacques ^a   Greggio, Chiara ^a   Gremion, Gerald ^c   Schlüter, Leo ^c   Hans, Didier ^c   Kreis, Roland ^b   Boesch, Chris ^b   Amati, Francesca ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chronic exercise; Delta efficiency; Gross efficiency; Net efficiency

Indexed keywords

CREATINE;

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXERCISE RECOVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL CONTENT; MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION; MITOCHONDRIAL VOLUME DENSITY; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESTING ENERGY EXPENDITURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 85005980942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12418     Document Type: Article

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