13 results match your criteria: "Victoria UniversityMelbourne[Affiliation]"
Front Physiol
July 2017
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of TechnologyBrisbane, QLD, Australia.
Exercise performance is reproducible in experienced athletes; however, less trained participants exhibit greater variability in performance and pacing. To reduce variability, it is common practice to complete a familiarization prior to experimental testing. However, there are no clear guidelines for familiarizing novice participants to a cycling time-trial (TT), and research findings from novice populations may still be influenced by learning effects.
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June 2017
College of Health and Biomedicine, Victoria UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia.
Gastrointestinal dysfunction is a common side-effect of chemotherapy leading to dose reductions and treatment delays. These side-effects may persist up to 10 years post-treatment. A topoisomerase I inhibitor, irinotecan (IRI), commonly used for the treatment of colorectal cancer, is associated with severe acute and delayed-onset diarrhea.
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April 2017
Centre for Chronic Disease, College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia.
Chemotherapy is a leading intervention against cancer. Albeit highly effective, chemotherapy has a multitude of deleterious side-effects including skeletal muscle wasting and fatigue, which considerably reduces patient quality of life and survivability. As such, a defense against chemotherapy-induced skeletal muscle dysfunction is required.
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February 2017
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong KongHong Kong, Hong Kong; Victoria UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia.
Many strains of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and bifidobacteria have exhibited strain-specific capacity to produce γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) via their glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) system, which is one of amino acid-dependent acid resistance (AR) systems in bacteria. However, the linkage between bacterial AR and GABA production capacity has not been well established. Meanwhile, limited evidence has been provided to the global diversity of GABA-producing LAB and bifidobacteria, and their mechanisms of efficient GABA synthesis.
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February 2017
Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
To quantify the effect of acute hypoxia on muscle oxygenation and power during simulated team-sport running. Seven individuals performed repeated and single sprint efforts, embedded in a simulated team-sport running protocol, on a non-motorized treadmill in normoxia (sea-level), and acute normobaric hypoxia (simulated altitudes of 2,000 and 3,000 m). Mean and peak power was quantified during all sprints and repeated sprints.
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February 2017
Institute of Sport, Exercise, and Active Living, Victoria UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia; Psychology Department, Bournemouth UniversityBournemouth, UK.
Afferent information from exercising muscle contributes to the sensation of exercise-induced muscle pain. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) delivers low-voltage electrical currents to the skin, inhibiting nociceptive afferent information. The use of TENS in reducing perceptions of exercise-induced pain has not yet been fully explored.
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January 2017
Clinical Exercise Science Research Program, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia; Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University Clayton VictoriaMelbourne, VIC, Australia.
Acute exercise reduces postprandial oxidative stress and glycemia; however, the effects of exercise intensity are unclear. We investigated the effect of acute low-volume high-intensity interval-exercise (LV-HIIE) and continuous moderate-intensity exercise (CMIE) on glycemic control and oxidative stress in overweight and obese, inactive adults. Twenty-seven adults were randomly allocated to perform a single session of LV-HIIE (9 females, 5 males; age: 30 ± 1 years; BMI: 29 ± 1 kg·m; mean ± SEM) or CMIE (8 females, 5 males; age: 30 ± 2.
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November 2016
Liggins Institute, University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand.
A maternal high-fat (HF) diet during pregnancy can lead to metabolic compromise, such as insulin resistance in adult offspring. Skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction is one mechanism contributing to metabolic impairments in insulin resistant states. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate whether mitochondrial dysfunction is evident in metabolically compromised offspring born to HF-fed dams.
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November 2016
Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
To determine if heavy resistance training in hypoxia (IHRT) is more effective at improving strength, power, and increasing lean mass than the same training in normoxia. A pair-matched, placebo-controlled study design included 20 resistance-trained participants assigned to IHRT (FIO2 0.143) or placebo (FIO2 0.
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November 2016
Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia; College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia.
We determined the effect of concurrent training incorporating either high-intensity interval training (HIT) or moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) on maximal strength, counter-movement jump (CMJ) performance, and body composition adaptations, compared with single-mode resistance training (RT). Twenty-three recreationally-active males (mean ± SD: age, 29.6 ± 5.
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August 2016
Centre of Sport and Exercise Science, School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex Colchester, UK.
Introduction: To achieve personal goals in exercise task completion, exercisers have to regulate, distribute, and manage their effort. In endurance sports, it has become very commonplace for athletes to consult task-related feedback on external devices to do so. The aim of the present study was to explore the importance of the presence of this information by examining the influence of the absence of commonly available task-related feedback on effort distribution and performance in experienced endurance athletes.
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February 2016
Centre for Health, Exercise and Active Living, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUK; College of Sport and Exercise Science, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria UniversityMelbourne, VIC, Australia.
Action observation interventions may have the potential to contribute to improved motor function in motor (re)learning settings by promoting functional activity and plasticity in the motor regions of the brain. Optimal methods for delivering such interventions, however, have yet to be established. This experiment investigated the effect on corticospinal excitability of manipulating the viewing instructions provided to participants (N = 21) prior to action observation.
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January 2016
School of Psychology, Bournemouth UniversityBournemouth, UK; Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria UniversityMelbourne, Australia.
Two studies examined differences in the cognition of golfers with differing levels of expertise in high and low pressure situations. In study 1, six high skill and six low skill golfers performed six holes of golf, while verbalizing their thoughts using Think Aloud (TA) protocol. Higher skilled golfers' cognitive processes centered more on planning in comparison to lower skilled golfers.
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