| Description |
xvi, 673 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Biomedical and health research ; vol. 75 |
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Biomedical and health research ; v. 75
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| Contents |
Section 1: Muscle function and bioenergetics. 1. Muscle contraction and supplying ATP to muscle cells -- 2. Hormonal and cellular control of bioenergetics -- 3. Skeletal muscle fatigue -- 4. A non invasive investigation of training-induced metabolic changes -- Section 2: Respiratory function and activity. 1. Lungs (anatomy) and mechanics of ventilation -- 2. Control of breathing: regulation of exercise hypernea -- 3. Pulmonary diffusion, ventilation-perfusion ratio and arterial osygen homeostasis -- Section 3: Cardiac function and activity. 1. Heart anatomy, mechanisms of contraction, and cardiac function during exercise -- 2. Electrocardiogram -- 3. Cardiac performance and hemodynamics -- 4. Heart rate variability -- Section 4: Blood flow dynamics, blood circulation and vascular function. 1. Characteristics of blood vessels -- 2. Control of skeletal muscle microcirculation in exercise -- 3. Blood rheology and exercise -- 4. Endothelial function and physical activity -- 5. Exercise, oxidative stress, and inflammation -- 6. Blood hemostasis in exercise and training |
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Section 5: Aerobic fitness: indices, limiting factors and effect training. 1. Time course of oxygen uptake at exercise -- 2. Ventilatory thresholds, lactic thresholds and maximal lactate steady state concept -- 3. Oxygen uptake efficiency slope -- 4. Energetic cost of exercise -- 5. Substrate oxidation -- Section 6: Anaerobic fitness: indices, limiting factors and effects of training. 1. Anaerobic power and capacity -- 2. Accumulated oxygen deficit issues -- 3. Repeated sprint ability -- Section 7: Environmental physiology. 1. Exercise in hot and cold environments -- 2. Altitude, hypoxia and exercise -- 3. apnea diving -- Section 8: Exercise sudden-death in apparently health subjects. 1. Sudden cardiac death related to physical exercise -- 2. A contemporary understanding of the exercise-related heat illnesses -- 3. Exercise associated hyponatremia -- 4. The case of Sickle Cell trait carriers |
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Section 9: Diseases: exercise testing and training prescription. 1. Exercsie therapy for obesity and type 2 Diabetes -- 2. Coronary artery disease -- 3. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with heart failure -- 4. Hypertension and exercise -- 5. Role of regular exercise in the management of asthma -- 6. New insights on chronic obstructive pulomonary disease exercise physiopathology -- 7. Sickle cell anemia -- 8. Human immunodeficiency virus -- 9. Cancer -- 10. Ageing |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Exercise -- Physiological aspects.
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Exercise -- physiology.
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Physical Exertion -- physiology.
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| Author |
Connes, Philippe.
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Hue, Olivier, Ph.D.
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Perrey, Stéphane.
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| LC no. |
2010922258 |
| ISBN |
1607504960 |
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9781607504962 |
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