Description
Book SynopsisFully revised and expanded, the second edition of Molecular Exercise Physiology offers a student-friendly introduction. It introduces a history documenting the emergence of molecular biology techniques to investigate exercise physiology, the methodology used, exercise genetics and epigenetics, and the molecular mechanisms that lead to adaptation after different types of exercise, with explicit links to outcomes in sport performance, nutrition, physical activity and clinical exercise.
Structured around key topics in sport and exercise science and featuring contributions from pioneering scientists, such as Nobel Prize winners, this edition includes new chapters based on cutting-edge research in epigenetics and muscle memory, satellite cells, exercise in cancer, at altitude, and in hot and cold climates. Chapters include learning objectives, structured guides to further reading, review questions, overviews of work by key researchers and box discussions from important pione
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to molecular exercise physiology
2. Methods in molecular exercise physiology
3. Genetics and exercise: an introduction
4. Genetics of muscle mass and strength
5. Genetics of endurance
6. Epigenetics of exercise
7. Signal transduction and exercise
8. Molecular adaptation to resistance exercise
9. Molecular adaptations to endurance exercise and skeletal muscle fibre plasticity
10. Molecular sport nutrition
11. Altitude, temperature, circadiun rhythms and exercise
12. Cancer and exercise
13. Satellite cells and exercise
