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  • NEURAL MECHANISMS CONTRIBUTE TO THE AGE RELATED INCREASE IN METABOLIC COST OF GAIT 

    Finch, Adria D. (East Carolina University, 2010)
    Aging is associated with biomechanical and physiological changes in several organ systems, including neural changes of voluntary movement. One manifestation of age-related changes in neural control of gait is the increased ...

  • 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 ...

  • Obese Children Have a Lower Lipolytic Response to an Acute Bout of Exercise When Compared to Lean 

    Geyer, Gabriel Hardy (East Carolina University, 2010)
    Over 17% of American children are obese. These are epidemic proportions considering the associated risk of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. Excess fat is caused from an imbalance in energy stored versus energy expended. ...

  • 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 ...

  • POSITIVE VS. NEGATIVE MUSCLE WORK OF NON-LEVEL WALKING IN LEAN AND OBESE ADULTS. 

    McNally, Michael P. (East Carolina University, 2010)
    When walking on non-level surfaces at a constant speed, an individual's total mechanical energy will increase when walking up an incline, and will decrease an equal amount going down a decline. Total muscle work performed ...

  • Regulation of Lipolysis By Perilipin : influence of Obesity and Exercise Training 

    Johnson, Emily Ann (East Carolina University, 2010)
    Obesity is the result of excess energy storage due to an imbalance between energy storage and energy utilization. Excess energy is stored as triacylglycerol (TAG) in adipose tissue in various regions throughout the body. ...

  • 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 ...

  • A single dose of metformin improves whole body insulin sensitivity and alters cellular redox state in skeletal muscle of Zucker fa/fa rats 

    Lark, Daniel Stephen (East Carolina University, 2010)
    Energy balance is considered a fundamental requirement of life forms from single cell organisms to higher mammals such as humans. Unfortunately, our species has also discovered the detrimental metabolic responses to excess ...

  • STRIDE LENGTH MANIPULATION IN YOUNG AND OLD ADULTS DURING LEVEL WALKING 

    Copple, Timothy J. (East Carolina University, 2010)
    Physiological and neurological changes with healthy aging cause old adults to alter biomechanical gait strategies. Mechanical plasticity is an ambulatory strategy in which old adults rely on proximal musculature in ...