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Title Gender differences in metabolism : practical and nutritional implications / edited by Mark Tarnopolsky
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Modern nutrition
Modern nutrition (Boca Raton, Fla.)
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction / Mark A. Tarnopolsky -- Ch. 2. Hormonal Differences / Mark A. Tarnopolsky and Ronald N. Cortright -- Ch. 3. Gender Differences in Skeletal Muscle Histology and Ultrastructure / Katherine Chorneyko and Jacqueline Bourgeois -- Ch. 4. Neuromuscular Function / Digby G. Sale -- Ch. 5. Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity During Exercise and Influences of Gender / Steven M. Ettinger -- Ch. 6. Gender Differences in Carbohydrate Metabolism: Rest, Exercise, and Post Exercise / Brent C. Ruby -- Ch. 7. Protein Metabolism and Exercise: Potential Sex-Based Differences / Stuart M. Phillips -- Ch. 8. Gender Differences in Lipid Metabolism During Exercise and at Rest / Mark A. Tarnopolsky -- Ch. 9. Sex Differences in Regulation of Energy Homeostasis, Growth and Body Composition During Periods of Energy Imbalance: Animal Studies / Ronald N. Cortright -- Ch. 10. Energy Metabolism (Human Studies) / Klaas R. Westerterp
Ch. 11. Estrogen and Oxygen Radicals: Oxidative Damage, Inflammation, and Muscle Function / Peter M. Tiidus -- Ch. 12. Gender Differences in Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage / Priscilla M. Clarkson and Stephen P. Sayer -- Ch. 13. Gender Differences in the Metabolic Responses to Caffeine / Terry E. Graham and Cyndy McLean
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Metabolism -- Sex differences.
Author Tarnopolsky, Mark.
LC no. 98032080
ISBN 0849381940 (alk. paper)