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Description
Muscle and Exercise Physiology is a comprehensive reference covering muscle and exercise physiology, from basic science to advanced knowledge, including muscle power generating capabilities, muscle energetics, fatigue, aging and the cardio-respiratory system in exercise performance. Topics presented include the clinical importance of body responses to physical exercise, including its impact on oxygen species production, body immune system, lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, cardiac energetics and its functional reserves, and the health-related effects of physical activity and inactivity. Novel topics like critical power, ROS and muscle, and heart muscle physiology are explored.
This book is ideal for researchers and scientists interested in muscle and exercise physiology, as well as students in the biological sciences, including medicine, human movements and sport sciences.
Key Features
- Contains basic and state-of-the-art knowledge on the most important issues of muscle and exercise physiology, including muscle and body adaptation to physical training, the impact of aging and physical activity/inactivity
- Provides both the basic and advanced knowledge required to understand mechanisms that limit physical capacity in both untrained people and top class athletes
- Covers advanced content on muscle power generating capabilities, muscle energetics, fatigue and aging
Table of contents
Front-matter, Copyright, Dedication, List of Contributors, Preface
Section I: Skeletal Muscle Morphology
Chapter 1: Human Body Composition and Muscle Mass
Chapter 2: Functional Morphology of the Striated Muscle
Chapter 3: Mechanisms of Muscle Contraction and Relaxation
Chapter 4: Motor Units and Muscle Receptors
Section II: Muscle Energetics and Its Performance
Chapter 5: Muscle Energetics
Chapter 6: Efficiency of Skeletal Muscle
Chapter 7: Muscle Function: Strenght, Speed, and Fatigbility
Chapter 8: Critical Power: Possibly the Most Important Fatigue Threshold in Exercise Phisiology
Chapter 9: Energy Cost of Human Locomotion in Land and in Water
Section III: Muscle Metbolism and Exercise Phisiology
Chapter 10: The Coupling of Internal and External Gas Exchange During Excercise
Chapter 11: Carbohydrate Metabolism During Excercise
Chapter 12: Muscle Lipid Metabolism
Chapter 13: Muscle as an Endocrine Organ
Chapter 14: The Role of Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Skeletal Muscle
Chapter 15: Excercise, Inmunity and Illness
Section IV: Body Adaptation to Excercise
Chapter 16: The Evolution of Skeletal Muscle Plasticity in Response to Physical Activity and Inactivity
Chapter 17: Muscle Blood Flow and Vascularization in Response to Excercise and Training
Chapter 18: Metabolic Transitions and Muscle Metabolic Stability: Effects of Excercise Training
Chapter 19: Human Ageing: Impact on Muscle Force and Power
Chapter 20: The Role of Excercise on Fracture Reduction and Bone Strengthening
Section V: Heart Muscle and Excercise
Chapter 21: Functional Morphology of the Cardiac Myocyte
Chapter 22: Exercise and the Coronary Circulation
Chapter 23: Cardiac Energetics
Chapter 24: Regulation of Heart Rate and Blood Pressure During Excercise in Humans
Chapter 25: Sympatho-Excitation in Heart Failure: Contribution of Skeletal Muscle Reflexes and the Protective Role of Excercise Training
Index
Readership
Researchers and scientists interested in muscle and exercise physiology as well as students of biological sciences, including medicine, human movements and sport sciences
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