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Oxygen uptake (VO2) kinetics in different species: a brief review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

David C Poole ,
Casey A Kindig ,
Brad J Behnke  and
Andrew M Jones
David C Poole*
Affiliation:
Departments of Kinesiology, Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, 1600 Denison Avenue, Manhattan, KS 66506-5802, USA
Casey A Kindig
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Brad J Behnke
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Andrew M Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Exercise and Sport Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
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*[email protected]
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Abstract

When a human begins to move or locomote, the energetic demands of its skeletal muscles increase abruptly and the oxygen (O2) transport system responds to deliver increased amounts of O2 to the respiring mitochondria. It is intuitively reasonable that the rapidity with which O2 transport can be increased to and utilized by (VO2) the contracting muscles would be greater in those species with a higher maximal VO2 capacity (i.e., VO2max). This review explores the relationship between VO2max and VO2 dynamics or kinetics at across a range of species selected, in part, for their disparate VO2max capacities. In healthy humans there is compelling evidence that the speed of the VO2 kinetics at the onset of exercise is limited by an oxidative enzyme inertia within the exercising muscles rather than by VO2 delivery to those muscles. This appears true also for the horse and dog but possibly not for a certain species of frog. Whereas there is a significant correlation between VO2max and the speed of VO2 kinetics among different species, it is possible to identify species or individuals within a species that exhibit widely disparate mass-specific VO2max capacities but similar VO2 kinetics (i.e., superlative human athlete and horse).

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maximal oxygen uptakeoxygen uptake dynamicsexercisemuscle contractions
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Review Article
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Equine and Comparative Exercise Physiology , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 1 - 15
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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