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Skeletal muscle myokine response to acute eccentric exercise

Description

This research is investigating the amount of myokines (signalling proteins) released from muscle cells with strenuous resistance. Participants will perform one bout of resistance exercise using a knee extension machine (30 sets of ten repetitions with one minute rest between) to analyze your skeletal muscle response.

Tasks required

If you consent to being part of the study you will:

  1. Complete a Get Active questionnaire
  2. Perform one session of resistance-exercise
  3. Provide two skeletal muscle biopsy samples surrounding the time you perform your bout of exercise to measure substances in your muscle called myokines
  4. Provide a resting heart rate, resting blood pressure, height and weight measurement before completing the exercise session

Participant criteria

  • 18 or older
  • Male or female

Principal investigator

Please contact Dr. Stephen Cornish to partipate