Muscle oximetry in sports science: An updated systematic review

S Perrey, V Quaresima, M Ferrari - Sports Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background In the last 5 years since our last systematic review, a significant number of
articles have been published on the technical aspects of muscle near-infrared spectroscopy …

Recommendations for women in mountain sports and hypoxia training/conditioning

J Burtscher, A Raberin, F Brocherie, D Malatesta… - Sports Medicine, 2024 - Springer
The (patho-) physiological responses to hypoxia are highly heterogeneous between
individuals. In this review, we focused on the roles of sex differences, which emerge as …

Women at altitude: Sex-related physiological responses to exercise in hypoxia

A Raberin, J Burtscher, T Citherlet, G Manferdelli… - Sports Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Sex differences in physiological responses to various stressors, including exercise, have
been well documented. However, the specific impact of these differences on exposure to …

Sex differences in NIRS-derived values of reactive hyperemia persist after experimentally controlling for the ischemic vasodilatory stimulus

JL Keller, MK Traylor, SM Gray… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Men and women exhibit different near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) outcomes in response
to vascular occlusion tests (VOT), which may be due to phenotypic characteristics or different …

Metabolic and microvascular function assessed using near‐infrared spectroscopy with vascular occlusion in women: age differences and reliability

EM Rogers, NF Banks… - Experimental Physiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the test–retest reliability of, and age‐related differences in, markers of
skeletal muscle metabolism and microvascular function derived from the near‐infrared …

Microvascular and oxidative stress responses to acute high-altitude exposure in prematurely born adults

G Manferdelli, BJ Narang, V Pialoux, G Giardini… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Premature birth is associated with endothelial and mitochondrial dysfunction, and chronic
oxidative stress, which might impair the physiological responses to acute altitude exposure …

NIRS-Derived Muscle-Deoxygenation and Microvascular Reactivity During Occlusion–Reperfusion at Rest Are Associated With Whole-Body Aerobic Fitness

A Koutlas, I Smilios, EM Kokkinou… - … Quarterly for Exercise …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) indices during arterial occlusion–reperfusion
maneuver have been used to examine the muscle's oxidative metabolism and microvascular …

Energetic contributions including gender differences and metabolic flexibility in the general population and athletes

WH Yang, JH Park, SY Park, Y Park - Metabolites, 2022 - mdpi.com
Metabolic flexibility includes the ability to perform fat and carbohydrate oxidation, as well as
oxidative capacity, which is associated with mitochondrial function, energetic contributions …

Comparison of analysis strategies to assess sex differences in microvascular reperfusion using near-infrared spectroscopy

RQ Landers-Ramos, KK McCully… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) vascular occlusion test (VOT) assesses
microvascular reperfusion. Two strategies have been used to quantify reperfusion following …

Does sex influence near-infrared spectroscopy-derived indicators of microvascular reactivity and the response to acute dietary capsaicin

K Zaleski, A Matias, A Gyampo, G Giuriato… - Microvascular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Endothelial dysfunction is associated with cardiovascular disease development, nitric oxide
(NO) deficiencies, and may be limb or sex-specific. Prior in vitro work indicated that the …