Integration of medical and sports sciences Book

	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	Foreword
	Muscle Research: A Cornerstone of Life Science. Opening Lecture	1
	From Frog to Man. Farewell Lecture	8
	The Hypothalamus and Neural Feed-Forward Regulation of Exercise Metabolism	20
	Exercise and Immunity - Mechanisms of Action	33
	Lipid Peroxides and Exercise	40
	Responsiveness of the Cat Plantaris to Functional Overload	43
	Muscular Dystrophic Mice: Apparently Hypertrophied Muscles and Bone-Muscle Growth Imbalance Hypothesis	52
	Expression of Fibroblast Growth Factors in Exercise-Induced Muscle Hypertrophy with Special Reference to the Role of Muscle Satellite Cells	67
	Expression of Glucose Transporter Isoforms in Atrophied and Enlarged Muscle	84
	Health Benefits of Exercise in the Elderly	91
	Ageing, Skeletal Muscle Contractile Properties and Enzyme Activities with Exercise	109
	Plasma Lipoprotein and Apolipoprotein Profiles in Aged Japanese Athletes	126
	Effect of Habitual Physical Activity on Glucose Tolerance and Peripheral Insulin Action in the Elderly	137
	Molecular Mechanisms of Muscle Disuse Atrophy (and Strategies of Prevention)	142
	Effect of Endurance Training on Disuse Muscle Atrophy Induced by Body Suspension in Rats. A Structural and Biochemical Study	150
	Association of Cardiac Ventricular Myosin Isoforms with Hemodynamic Factors	162
	Decreased [alpha]B-Crystallin in Soleus Muscle Atrophy and Role of [alpha]B-Crystallin in Muscle	171
	Biochemical Determination of Training Effects Using Insulin Clamp and Microdialysis Techniques	193
	The Glucose Transport System in Skeletal Muscle: Effects of Exercise and Insulin	201
	Acute Metabolic Effects of Exercise on Glucose Fluxes in Splanchnic and Peripheral Tissues in Diabetics, Determined with an Innovative Approach	216
	Exercise and Diabetes	227
	Is There an Intimate Interplay between Temperature Acclimation and Exogenous Insulin? With Special Reference to the Participation of Brown Adipose Tissue
	Glucose Metabolism in Exercising Man	243
	Interaction of Fuels in Muscle Metabolism during Exercise	252
	Current Trends in Microdialysis, with Focus on the in vivo Study of Skeletal Muscle Glucose Metabolism	262
	Effects of Acute and Chronic Exercise on Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Transport Activity in Skeletal Muscle	273
	The Overtraining Syndrome: Some Biochemical Aspects	281
	A Mathematical Model of Regulation of Protein Synthesis by Activation Feedback: Some Reflections on Its Possibilities and Limits in Describing Muscle Mass Adaptations with Exercise	288
	Exercise Induction of 5'-Aminolevulinate Synthase: A Mitochondrial Enzyme in the Heme Biosynthetic Pathway	299
	Changes in Myosin Heavy-Chain and Light-Chain Isoforms following Sustained Exercise	309
	Non-Exercise-Related Stimulation of Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis in Creatine-Depleted Rats	318
	Mitochondrial Myopathy and Transcriptional Control	324
	Effects of Exercise and Glucose Ingestion on Adipose Tissue Metabolism. A Microdialysis Study	329
	Recommended Dietary Allowances for Chinese Athletes. Suggestions and Illustrations	336
	Effects of Exercise and Nutrition on Branched-Chain Amino Acid Metabolism. Activation of Branched-Chain Alpha-Keto Acid Dehydrogenase Complex by Exercise and Effect of High-Fat Diet Intake on the Activation of the Enzyme Complex	342
	Sustained Exercise Endurance Capacity after Depletion of Liver Glycogen Levels	349
	Carbohydrate Supplementation during Exercise	356
	Noninvasive and Continuous Determination of Energy Metabolism during Muscular Contraction and Recovery	364
	Oxygen Uptake: Work Rate Relationship in Patients with Heart Disease	374
	Characteristics of Cardiorespiratory Responses during Exercise in Patients with Chronic Airflow Obstruction	381
	Cardiopulmonary Responses and Blood Flow Distribution during Exercise in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction	396
	Possible Relationship between Muscle Morphology and Capillarisation and the Risk Factor for Development of Cardiovascular Diseases	405
	Exercise, Diet and Prostaglandins	416
	A New Method for the Evaluation of Muscle Aerobic Capacity in Relation to Physical Activity Measured by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy	421
	Effect of Exercise on Plasma Lipoprotein Metabolism	430
	Subject Index	439