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What factors affect fuel metabolism in humans? (5)
Why is it important to understand fuel utilisation?
Name 4 ways we can measure substrate oxidation
What does indirect calorimetry do?
What do Douglas bags do?
What do metabolic carts do?
What does a respiratory chamber do?
State the respiratory quotient (RQ)
What does the RQ represent?
State the glucose RQ formula
What does an RQ = 1 indicate?
State the fatty acid RQ formula.
What does an RQ of 0.7 indicate?
When does the RQ become invalid?
Why does the RQ become invalid?
How do you calculate whole body CHO oxidation?
How do you calculate whole body fat oxidation?
Where is Carbohydrate stored and in what form?
Where are fatty acids stored and in what form?
Where is blood glycerol in what form?
What is the advantage of measuring blood metabolite concentration?
What are the disadvantages of measuring blood metabolite concentrations?
What is anterio-venous blood sampling?
What are the advantages of anterio-venous blood sampling?
What are the disadvantages of anterio-venous blood sampling?
Name the three needles that can be used to take a muscle biopsy?
What is the biochemical process to analyse muscle substrates?
What information does biochemical analysis of a muscle sample provide?
What does it not take into account?
What is the Immunohistochemical analysis of muscle protocol?
How does muscle staining work?
What is GLUT 4?
Where is it found?
During exercise what happens to GLUT 4?
What does electron microscopy allow us to do?
Where is glycogen stored?
What is the advantage of analysing muscle biopsies?
What are the disadvantages of analysing muscle biopsies?
