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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers

Recovery, Fatigability, and Proteomic Response to Aerobic Exercise Training in Healthy Individuals

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03800342

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Brief summary

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The purpose of this protocol is to investigate the role of expired non-metabolic carbon dioxide in the relationship between fatigability and recovery and the response to aerobic exercise training in healthy individuals. Both fatigability and recovery are profoundly influenced by mitochondrial energetics which can be inhibited by ionic by-product accumulation during exercise. Buffering mechanisms of these fatigue-inducing ions releases non-metabolic carbon dioxide (CO2) that can be measured as expired CO2 (VCO2) during cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), however the role of non-metabolic VCO2 in the relationship between fatigability and recovery has yet to be investigated. Furthermore, this study aims to identify the how the patterns of proteins in healthy individuals respond to aerobic exercise training (e.g. stationary cycling) over approximately one month. The underlying mechanisms of recovery after physical activity, including mechanisms or biological pathways that could be highlighted by analysis of proteins in urine, could add to scientific knowledge regarding physical activity tolerance and potential exercise interventions. This knowledge could eventually assist with designing precise and personalized exercise interventions to improve physical activity performance. The investigators hypothesize that 1) non-metabolic CO2 will be at least moderately associated with the inverse relationship between fatigability and recovery; and 2) highly active adults, compared to sedentary individuals, will exhibit differential proteomic patterns in response to an initial acute bout and subsequent repeated bouts of aerobic exercise.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT03800342
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
George Mason University
Other
Enrollment
21 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 60 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Jan 21, 2019
Primary completion
Apr 23, 2019
Completion
Apr 23, 2019
Last update posted
May 15, 2019

2019

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
George Mason University Fairfax Virginia 22030

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