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Supramaximal Intensity Hypoxic Exercise and Vascular Function Assessment in Mice
Published on: March 15, 2019
[OPTIMAL HYPERCAPNIC HYPOXIA CONDITIONS FOR INCREASING RESISTANCE TO ACUTE HYPOXIA]
Abstract:
The study was focused on finding an optimal length of hypercapnia-hypoxia sessions of training resistance to acute hypoxia and looking for benefits from reoxygenation intervals and intermittent training over daytime. It turned out that 3 days of a 5-minute hypercapnia-hypoxia session per day improved resistance to acute hypoxia explicitly and that a 30-minute session increased resistance to the highest rate. Two training sessions per day are no better than one session. Hypercapnia-hypoxia training with reoxygenation intervals are the least effective in comparison to the other modes of training.
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