... athletes DNA deletion exhaustive exercise peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ co-activator 1-α (PGC-1α) reactive oxygen species Extremely heavy or exhaustive exercise fosters mitochondrial disturbances that could permanently damage its function in health and disease. Exercise-induced...

...A. G. Leitch; L. Clancy; D. C. Flenley 1. Maximal oxygen uptake (V̇o 2 max.), lung volumes, and ventilatory responses to carbon dioxide and hypoxia have been measured in identical twin athletes, who were trained to a similar high degree. 2. The results confirm previous findings for V̇o 2 max...

...J. Brotherhood; B. Brozović; L. G. C. Pugh 1. Haematological investigation and blood volume measurements were carried out on forty male middle-and long-distance runners and twelve non-athletes. 2. The distribution of haemoglobin concentration, packed cell volume, erythrocyte count, total iron...