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  • The impact of a repeated bout of eccentric exercise on muscular strength, muscle soreness and creatine kinase. 

    Smith, L. L.; Fulmer, M. G.; Holbert, Donald; McCammon, Michael R.; Houmard, Joseph A.; Frazer, D. D.; Nsien, E.; Israel, R. Gay (East Carolina University, 1994-12)
    The purpose of this study was to determine if there were any beneficial or detrimental effects regarding delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), serum creatine kinase (CK), and maximum concentric strength at 80% of 1-RMconc, ...

  • Intramuscular Lipid Metabolism, Insulin Action and Obesity 

    Consitt, Leslie A.; Bell, Jill A.; Houmard, Joseph A. (East Carolina University, 2009-01)
    With the increasing prevalence of obesity, research has focused on the molecular mechanism(s) linking obesity and skeletal muscle insulin resistance. Metabolic alterations within muscle, such as changes in the cellular ...

  • Intramuscular lipid oxidation and obesity 

    Houmard, Joseph A. (East Carolina University, 2008-04)
    There is an accumulating amount of evidence indicating that lipid oxidation is depressed in the skeletal muscle of obese individuals. Decrements in fatty acid oxidation (FAO) have been reported with obesity in models ranging ...

  • More Than Just Letting Them Play: Parental Influence on Women's Lifetime Sport Involvement 

    Dixon, Marlene A.; Warner, Stacy; Bruening, Jennifer (East Carolina University, 2008)
    This qualitative study uses expectancy-value and life course theories (Giele & Elder, 1998) to examine both the proximal and distal impact of early family socialization on enduring female participation in sport. Seventeen ...

  • No difference in the skeletal muscle angiogenic response 

    Gavin, Timothy Patrick; Ruster, Rebecca S.; Carrithers, John A.; Zwetsloot, Kevin A.; Kraus, Raymond M.; Evans, Christopher A.; Knapp, Deborah J.; Drew, James L.; McCartney, Jennifer S.; Garry, Joseph P.; Hickner, Robert C. (East Carolina University, 2007-11)
    Ischaemia-induced skeletalmuscle angiogenesis is impaired in aged compared with young mice. In humans, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA and protein following an acute exercise bout are lower in aged compared ...

  • Physical activity across the curriculum: year one process evaluation results 

    Gibson, Cheryl A.; Smith, Bryan K.; DuBose, Katrina D.; Greene, J. Leon; Bailey, Bruce W.; Williams, Shannon L.; Ryan, Joseph J.; Schmelzle, Kristin H.; Washburn, Richard A.; Sullivan, Debra K.; Mayo, Matthew S.; Donnelly, Joseph E. (East Carolina University, 2008-07-07)
    Background: Physical Activity Across the Curriculum (PAAC) is a 3-year elementary school-based intervention to determine if increased amounts of moderate intensity physical activity performed in the classroom will diminish ...

  • Relationships between Adipose Tissue and Cytokine Responses to a Randomized Controlled Exercise Training Intervention 

    Huffman, Kim M.; Slentz, Cris A.; Bales, Connie W.; Houmard, Joseph A.; Kraus, William E. (East Carolina University, 2008-04)
    Adipose-derived cytokines play a prominent role in mediating the metabolic consequences of obesity and excess body fat. Given this, we hypothesized that alterations in adipose tissue stores incurred with exercise training ...

  • Relative fat oxidation is higher in children than adults 

    Kostyak, John C.; Kris-Etherton, Penny; Bagshaw, Deborah; DeLany, James P.; Farrell, Peter A. (East Carolina University, 2007-08-16)
    Background: Prepubescent children may oxidize fatty acids more readily than adults. Therefore, dietary fat needs would be higher for children compared with adults. The dietary fat recommendations are higher for children 4 ...

  • A sex-specific relationship between capillary density and anaerobic threshold 

    Robbins, Jennifer L.; Duscha, Brian D.; Bensimhon, Daniel R.; Wasserman, Karlman; Hansen, James E.; Houmard, Joseph A.; Annex, Brian H.; Kraus, William E. (East Carolina University, 2009-04)
    Although both capillary density and peak oxygen consumption (VO2) improve with exercise training, it is difficult to find a relationship between these two measures. It has been suggested that peak VO2 may be more related ...