This study's objective was to determine whether 14 days of dietary creatine supplementation preceding an injurious bout of eccentric contractions affect the in vivo strength loss of mouse anterior crural muscles. Three groups of nine mice each were fed a meal diet for 14 days, one group at each of three levels of creatine supplementation (i.e., 0, 0.5, and 1% creatine). Electrically stimulated ...

In this study we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine differences in recruited brain regions during the concentric and the eccentric phase of an imagined maximum resistance training task of the elbow flexors in healthy young subjects. The results showed that during the eccentric phase, pre-frontal cortex (BA44) bilaterally was recruited when contrasted to the concentric ...

To investigate whether circulating blood volume contributes to left ventricular (LV) geometry, 60 outpatients with untreated, mild to moderate essential hypertension and 45 normotensives were studied. Based on echocardiographic LV mass index and relative wall thickness, four patterns of LV geometry, i.e., normal left ventricle, concentric remodeling, eccentric hypertrophy and concentric hypertr...

De Ruiter, C. J. and A. De Haan. Similar effects of cooling and fatigue on eccentric and concentric force-velocity relationships in human muscle. J Appl Physiol 90: 2109–2116, 2001.—The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of muscle temperature and fatigue during stretch (eccentric) and shortening (concentric) contractions of the maximally electrically activated human adductor p...

A plethora of research has examined bilateral and reciprocal concentric strength relationships of the thigh musculature in a variety of athletic populations. However, little research has reported strength values of the trunk and hip musculature. Thus, the purpose of this investigation was to examine concentric and eccentric strength of the trunk and hip flexor and extensor muscle groups in fema...

In 2010, the American Heart Association (AHA) published a new concept "ideal cardiovascular health" (CVH), which consisted of 4 behaviors (smoking, body mass index [BMI], physical activity, and diet score) and 3 health factors (total cholesterol [TC], blood pressure [BP], and fasting plasma glucose [FPG]). This study was aimed to investigate the association between CVH with left ventricle hyper...

Your muscles can contract in different ways: when you walk upstairs, the at fronts of your thighs shorten (concentric contraction), whereas downstairs, they lengthen (eccentric contraction). Concentric contractions require more oxygen and thus make burn calories. Eccentric are easier but break parts muscle feel sore for several days. If repeat eccentric exercises, however, will probably get big...

To elucidate left ventricular (LV) cardiac structure and function in patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension, we studied the relationship between LV geometry and function. We evaluated LV diastolic and systolic functions by M-mode echocardiography in 91 age-matched normotensive control subjects (NT) and 124 patients with essential hypertension. Hypertensive patients were divided i...

Babault, Nicolas, Michel Pousson, Yves Ballay, and Jacques Van Hoecke. Activation of human quadriceps femoris during isometric, concentric, and eccentric contractions. J Appl Physiol 91: 2628–2634, 2001.—Maximal and submaximal activation level of the right knee-extensor muscle group were studied during isometric and slow isokinetic muscular contractions in eight male subjects. The activation le...

BACKGROUND Cartilage loading is associated with the onset and progression of osteoarthritis and cell death may play an important role in these processes. Although much is known about cell death in joint impact loading, there is no information on joints loaded by muscular contractions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of muscle generated eccentric and concentric submaximal joi...