Postgraduate Specialisation in Sport and Exercise Medicine

Physiology - DIDATTICA FRONTALE

Course code

4S00120

Name of lecturer

Enrico Tam

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1

Academic sector

BIO/09 - PHYSIOLOGY

Language of instruction

Italian

Site

VERONA

Period

not yet allocated

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Syllabus

Muscle energetics
1. Oxidative metabolism
2. Steady-state oxygen consumption and maximum oxygen consumption
3. Performance of muscle exercise
4. Maximum oxygen consumption and aging
5. Factors limiting maximum oxygen consumption
6. Fraction of use of maximum oxygen consumption and time to exhaustion
7. Regulation of mitochondrial respiration in skeletal muscle
8. Lactate metabolism during submaximal exercise
9. Concept of the lactate spool and lactate threshold
10. Determination of the so-called lactacid threshold and prescription of exercise
11. Lactate and supramaximal exercise: the energy equivalent of lactate (concept and practical use)
12. Maximum potency and maximum lactacid capacity
13. Maximum alactacid power

Cardiac responses to exercise
1.0 Transient and steady state
2.0 V'O2max
2.1 V'O2max in different individuals
2.2 The factors that determine V'O2max
3.0 Cardiac output
4.0 Heart rate
5.0 The ejection volume
5.1 Stroke volume and end-dystolic volume
5.2 Frank-Starling law
6.0 The arteriovenous O2 difference
7.0 Pressure responses to dynamic exercise
7.1 Cardiac output distribution
8.0 Increased vascular conductance in muscles
8.1 Local factors: the muscle pump
8.2 Local factors: flow-dependent vasodilation
8.3 Local factors: metabolic-dependent vasodilation
8.4 Local factors: myogenic autoregulation
8.5 Integration between local factors
9.0 Acute muscular responses to dynamic exercise
9.1 Sympatholysis
10.0 Mean Arterial Pressure during dynamic exercise
11.0 Central command, metaboreflex, blood pressure and HR
11.1 Peripheral and central control of cardiorespiratory responses
11.2 Timely Response and Central Command
11.3 Central control of cardiorespiratory responses
12.0 Zeroing of the baroreflex
12.1 Zeroing of the baroreflex and Central Control
13.0 Peripheral control of HR, V'E and perfusion
13.1 Neurohumoral activation
14.0 Pressure responses to isometric exercise
14.1 Neurovascular reflexes during isometric exercise

Reference books

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