Human skeletal muscle demonstrates remarkable plasticity, adapting to numerous external
stimuli including the habitual level of contractile loading. Accordingly, muscle function and …

The ketone bodies acetoacetate (AcAc) and β-hydroxybutyrate (βHB) have pleiotropic
effects in multiple organs including brain, heart, and skeletal muscle by serving as an …

Since publication of its First Edition in 1981, Exercise Physiology has helped more than
350,000 students build a solid foundation of the scientific principles underlying modern …

Fat and carbohydrate are important fuels for aerobic exercise and there can be reciprocal
shifts in the proportions of carbohydrate and fat that are oxidized. The interaction between …

Physical activity and exercise are key components of energy expenditure and therefore of
energy balance. Changes in energy balance alter fat mass. It is therefore reasonable to ask …

The primary genetic, environmental, and metabolic factors responsible for causing insulin
resistance and pancreatic β-cell failure and the precise sequence of events leading to the …

1 Contemporary stable isotope methodology was applied in combination with muscle biopsy
sampling to accurately quantify substrate utilisation and study the regulation of muscle fuel …

The interaction between insulin and exercise is an example of balancing and modifying the
effects of two opposing metabolic regulatory forces under varying conditions. While insulin is …

A major goal of training to improve the performance of prolonged, continuous, endurance
events lasting up to 3 h is to promote a range of physiological and metabolic adaptations …

The important Third Edition of this successful book conveys a modern and integrated picture
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