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The influence of the level of physical activity and human development in the quality of life in survivors of strokeFelipe J Aidar
Department of Sports Science, Exercise and Health of the Trás os Montes e Alto Douro University, Vila Real, Portugal
Health Qual Life Outcomes 9:89. 2011..This study aimed to identify differences in physical activity level and in the quality of life of stroke survivors in two cities differing in economic aspects of the human development index...- Effect of 28 days of creatine ingestion on muscle metabolism and performance of a simulated cycling road raceRobert C Hickner
Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Human Performance Laboratory, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA
J Int Soc Sports Nutr 7:26. 2010..The effects of creatine supplementation on muscle metabolism and exercise performance during a simulated endurance road race was investigated... - Fatty acid oxidation by skeletal muscle homogenates from morbidly obese black and white American womenJonathan D Privette
Department of Biochemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Metabolism 52:735-8. 2003..The decreased fatty acid oxidation by skeletal muscle of obese Black women could result in shunting these fuels from muscle to adipose tissue for storage, which may contribute to the maintenance of obesity in the Black women... - Lower capillarization, VEGF protein, and VEGF mRNA response to acute exercise in the vastus lateralis muscle of aged vs. young womenAndrea N Croley
Department of Exercise and Sport Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Appl Physiol 99:1872-9. 2005.... - Effect of exercise intensity and volume on persistence of insulin sensitivity during training cessationSudip Bajpeyi
Department of Exercise and Sports Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Appl Physiol 106:1079-85. 2009.... - Lower skeletal muscle capillarization and VEGF expression in aged vs. young menNicholas A Ryan
Department of Exercise and Sport Science, 363 Ward Sports Medicine Bldg, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
J Appl Physiol 100:178-85. 2006..There were no effects of exercise or age on muscle Flt-1 mRNA or protein or KDR protein. These results confirm that skeletal muscle capillarization and VEGF expression are lower in aged compared with young men... - Endothelial nitric oxide synthase content in adipose tissue from obese and lean African American and white American womenVaughna B Galvin
Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Exercise and Sports Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Metabolism 54:1368-73. 2005.... - Lower capillary density but no difference in VEGF expression in obese vs. lean young skeletal muscle in humansTimothy P Gavin
Department of Exercise and Sport Science, East Carolina University, 363 Ward Sports Medicine Bldg, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Appl Physiol 98:315-21. 2005..Although differences may exist in CD and capillary-to-fiber area ratio between lean and obese skeletal muscle, the present results provide evidence that VEGF and VEGF receptor expression are not different between lean and obese muscle... - Basal, but not overload-induced, myonuclear addition is attenuated by NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) administrationScott E Gordon
Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Can J Physiol Pharmacol 85:646-51. 2007..These data indicate that NOS inhibition in rat plantaris muscle attenuates myonuclear addition under basal, but not overloaded, conditions... - Progesterone increases skeletal muscle mitochondrial H2O2 emission in nonmenopausal womenDaniel A Kane
The Human Performance Laboratory, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 300:E528-35. 2011..01). The results suggest that 1) P4 increases mE(H2O2) with or without E2; 2) P4 alone inhibits Jo(2) but not when E2 is present; and 3) P4 is related to the mE(H2O2) previously linked to skeletal muscle insulin resistance... - Skeletal muscle fat oxidation is increased in African-American and white women after 10 days of endurance exercise trainingRonald N Cortright
The Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Excercise and Sport Science, College of Health and Human Performance, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:1201-10. 2006..CW. In lean CW, endurance exercise training (EET) elevates the oxidative capacity of skeletal muscle. Therefore, we determined whether EET would elevate skeletal muscle FAO similarly in AAW and CW with a lower lipid oxidative capacity... - L-citrulline reduces time to exhaustion and insulin response to a graded exercise testRobert C Hickner
Human Performance Laboratory, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Med Sci Sports Exerc 38:660-6. 2006.... - No difference in the skeletal muscle angiogenic response to aerobic exercise training between young and aged menTimothy P Gavin
Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Human Performance Laboratory, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Physiol 585:231-9. 2007..In addition, muscular activity-associated increases in interstitial VEGF protein may play an important role in the maintenance of skeletal muscle capillarization across the life span... - Lower skeletal muscle nutritive blood flow in older women is related to eNOS protein contentRobert C Hickner
Human Performance Laboratory, Department of Exercise and Sport Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 58:20-5. 2003..043, respectively: p <.05). Resting skeletal nutritive blood flow and muscle eNOS content was lower in older than in young women. A low muscle eNOS protein content may be linked to a low muscle nutritive blood flow in healthy women... - Angiogenic growth factor response to acute systemic exercise in human skeletal muscleTimothy P Gavin
Department of Exercise and Sport Science, East Carolina Univiversity, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Appl Physiol 96:19-24. 2004..Acta Physiol Scand 175: 201-209, 2002); and 3) VEGF protein is decreased immediately after exercise... - Impaired plasma fatty acid oxidation in extremely obese womenJohn P Thyfault
Dept of Physiology, The Brody School of Medicine, 3E 100 Brody Physiology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 287:E1076-81. 2004..455) and exercise (r = -0.459). In conclusion, extremely obese women and weight-reduced women both possess inherent defects in plasma FFA oxidation, which may play a role in massive weight gain and associated comorbidities... - Lipid-induced insulin resistance is prevented in lean and obese myotubes by AICAR treatmentBenjamin T Bikman
The Metabolic Institute for the Study of Diabetes and Obesity, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27834, USA
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 298:R1692-9. 2010..These findings suggest an important role for regular exercise in addition to offering a potential mechanism of action for oral AMPK-activating agents, such as thiazolidinediones and metformin... - Regulation of fat metabolism during resistance exercise in sedentary lean and obese menMichael J Ormsbee
Human Performance Laboratory, 363 Ward Sports Medicine Bldg, East Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Appl Physiol 106:1529-37. 2009..The blunted SCAAT lipolytic response to RE in OB compared with LN men is unrelated to RE-induced catecholamine activation of the antilipolytic alpha(2)-ARs and may be due to depressed GH in OB subjects... - Energy expenditure of obese, overweight, and normal weight females during lifestyle physical activitiesJennifer L Aull
Department of Exercise and Sport Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 3:177-85. 2008..To quantify energy expenditure of various lifestyle physical activities of obese, overweight, and normal-weight girls... - Long- and medium-chain fatty acid oxidation is increased in exercise-trained human skeletal muscleKim Jong-Yeon
Department of Biochemistry, Diabetes/Obesity Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Metabolism 51:460-4. 2002..In contrast, carnitine-mediated transport (COT) does not appear to contribute to an enhancement in MCFA oxidation with exercise training... - Ketone body metabolism in lean and obese womenEsther Vice
Department of Physiology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA
Metabolism 54:1542-5. 2005..The decreased oxidation of ketone bodies by muscle is consistent with aberrations in muscle metabolism in the obese individuals that most likely relates to a decrease in mitochondrial numbers... - Acute endurance exercise increases skeletal muscle uncoupling protein-3 gene expression in untrained but not trained humansRobert C Noland
Department of Exercise and Sport Science (Human Performance Laboratory, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Metabolism 52:152-8. 2003..These results demonstrate that acute endurance exercise increases UCP-3 gene expression only in untrained skeletal muscle, but this effect does not seem to be tightly linked to the exercise-induced fluctuations in serum NEFA levels... - Fat metabolism and acute resistance exercise in trained menMichael J Ormsbee
Human Performance Laboratory, Dept of Exercise and Sport Science, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
J Appl Physiol 102:1767-72. 2007..Therefore, the mechanism behind RE contributing to improved body composition is in part due to enhanced abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue lipolysis and improved whole body fat oxidation and energy expenditure in response to RE... - Peptide-YY levels after a fat load in black and white womenJulianne Davis
Department of Internal Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, NC 27834, USA
Obes Res 13:2055-7. 2005.... - Differences in the lipolytic function of adipose tissue preparations from Black American and Caucasian womenHisham Barakat
Department of Biochemistry, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
Metabolism 51:1514-8. 2002..This suggests that the signaling pathway of HSL stimulation is more efficient in the Black American women...