Low Load With BFR vs. High Load Without BFR Eccentric Hamstring Training Have Similar Outcomes on Muscle Adaptation.

Jones, MJ, Dominguez, JF, Macatugal, C, Coleman, K, Reed, B, and Schroeder, ET. Low load with BFR vs. high load without BFR eccentric hamstring training have similar outcomes on muscle adaptation.

Validation of an Automated and Adjustable Blood Pressure System for Use with a Public Health Station.

Objective: A new automated and adjustable blood pressure (BP) system has been developed to improve the accuracy of BP measurements on public-use health stations. This self-fitting BP system includes a mechanical cuff that wraps down to the user's arm prior to bladder inflation. The purpose of this study was to validate the adaptable BP system (ABPS) using the current standards from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).

Energy expenditure and heart rate responses to increased loading in individuals with motor complete spinal cord injury performing body weight-supported exercises.

Objective: To examine acute metabolic and heart rate responses in individuals with motor complete spinal cord injury (SCI) during stepping and standing with body weight support (BWS).

Design: Cohort study.

Setting: Therapeutic exercise research laboratory.

Novel indirect calorimetry technology to analyze metabolism in individual neonatal rodent pups.

Background: The ability to characterize the development of metabolic function in neonatal rodents has been limited due to technological constraints. Low respiratory volumes and flows at rest pose unique problems, making it difficult to reliably measure O(2) consumption, CO(2) production, respiratory quotient (RQ), and energy expenditure (EE). Our aim was to develop and validate a commercial-grade indirect calorimetry system capable of characterizing the metabolic phenotype of individual neonatal rodents.

Growth deficits in a postnatal day 3 rat model of hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.

The postnatal day (P) 3 rat model of hypoxic-ischemic (HI) brain injury provides valuable information regarding the cellular response to HI injury in a very immature brain. Our present study is the first to examine growth, metabolic, and behavioral outcomes following a P3 HI brain injury. Rats were injured by cauterizing the right common carotid, and exposure to 8% oxygen for 1.

Compartmental analysis of steady-state diaphragm Ca2+ kinetics in chronic congestive heart failure.

Unlabelled: An analytic method based on simulation and modeling of long-term 45Ca(2+) efflux data was used to estimate steady-state Ca(2+) contents (nmolCa(2+)g(-1)tissuewetwt.) and exchange fluxes (nmolCa(2+)min(-1)g(-1)tissuewetwt.) for extracellular and intracellular compartments in in vitro resting diaphragm from congestive heart failure (CHF, n=12) and sham-operated (SHAM, n=10) rats.