An integrated view on the oxygenation responses to incremental exercise at the brain, the locomotor and respiratory muscles

• Published in: European Journal of Applied Physiology Vol. 116; no. 11-12; pp. 2085 - 2102
• Main Authors: Boone, Jan, Vandekerckhove, Kristof, Coomans, Ilse, Prieur, Fabrice, Bourgois, Jan G.
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animals; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Exercise - physiology; Human Physiology; Humans; Invited Review; Lactic Acid - blood; Leg - physiology; Locomotion - physiology; Models, Biological; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Oxygen - metabolism; Oxygen Consumption - physiology; Physical Exertion - physiology; Pulmonary Gas Exchange - physiology; Respiratory Muscles - innervation; Respiratory Muscles - physiology; Sports Medicine; Breakpoints; Oxygen demand; Oxygen supply; Respiratory compensation point; Whole-body

In the past two decades oxygenation responses to incremental ramp exercise, measured non-invasively by means of near-infrared spectroscopy at different locations in the body, have advanced the insights on the underpinning mechanisms of the whole-body pulmonary oxygen uptake ( V ˙ O 2 ) response. In...