Gender difference in metabolism: practical and nutritional implications/

Other Authors: Tarnopolsky, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, c1999
Series:Modern nutrition (Boca Raton, Fla.)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Hormonal differences
  • Chapter 3. Gender differences in skeletal muscle histology and ultrastructure
  • Chapter 4. Neuromuscular function
  • Chapter 5. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity during exercise and influences of gender
  • Chapter 6. Gender differences in carbohydrate metabolism: rest, exercise and post exercise
  • Chapter 7. Protein metabolism and exercise: potentional sex- based differences
  • Chapter 8. Gender differences in lipid metabolism during exercise and at rest
  • Chapter 9. Sex differences in regulation of energy homeostasis, growth and body composition during periods of energy imbalance: animal studies
  • Chapter 10. Energy metabolism (human studies)
  • Chapter 11. Estrogen and radicals: oxidative damage, inflammation, and muscle function
  • Chapter 12. Gender differences in exercise- includes muscle damage
  • Chapter 13. Gender differences in the metabolic responses to caffeine
  • Index