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Experimental Physiology publishes high quality, original, physiological research papers and other article types that give novel insights into fundamental homeostatic and adaptive responses in health and papers that further our knowledge of pathophysiological mechanisms in diseases.

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Cerebral blood flow and cerebrovascular reactivity are modified by maturational stage and exercise training status during youth

Jack S. Talbot, Dean R. Perkins, Christine M. Tallon, Tony G. Dawkins, Andrew J. M. Douglas, Ryan Beckerleg, Andrew Crofts, Melissa E. Wright, Saajan Davies, Jessica J. Steventon, Kevin Murphy, Rachel N. Lord, Christopher J. A. Pugh, Jon L. Oliver, Rhodri S. Lloyd, Philip N. Ainslie, Ali M. McManus, Mike Stembridge, 
  •  24 September 2023
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Burning fuels burns the brain's bioenergetic bridges: On the importance of physiological resilience

Ryan P. Sixtus, Damian M. Bailey, 
  •  24 September 2023
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Consequences of group III/IV afferent feedback and respiratory muscle work on exercise tolerance in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

Joshua R. Smith, Jonathon W. Senefeld, Kathryn F. Larson, Michael J. Joyner, 
  •  21 September 2023
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Exercise breaks prevent attenuation in cerebrovascular function following an acute bout of uninterrupted sitting in healthy children

Christine M. Tallon, Daniela Nowak-Flück, Mathew G. Reiger, Daniel J. Green, Mark S. Tremblay, Phil N. Ainslie, Ali M. McManus, 
  •  20 September 2023
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Pendular mechanism determinants and elastic energy usage during walking of obese and non‐obese children

Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga, Henrique Bianchi Oliveira, Arthur H. Dewolf, Cosme Franklim Buzzachera, Flávia Gomes Martinez, André Ivaniski-Mello, 
  •  18 September 2023
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Releasing the breaks on breathing frequency

Fiona McDonald, 
  •  18 September 2023
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Causes and consequences of sympathoexcitation across the lifespan: Physiological or pathological?

Zoe H. Adams, Jill N. Barnes, Rachel N. Lord, 
  •  15 September 2023
No abstract is available for this article.
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Critical power is a key threshold determining the magnitude of post‐exercise hypotension in non‐hypertensive young males

Tze-Huan Lei, I-Lin Wang, Yi-Ming Chen, Xin-Hao Liu, Naoto Fujii, Shunsaku Koga, Blake Perry, Toby Mundel, Faming Wang, Yinhang Cao, Kohei Dobashi, Narihiko Kondo, Hao-Yu Li, Richie P. Goulding, 
  •  15 September 2023
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Stress‐induced cardiovascular morbidity: Past, present and future

Aoife D. Slyne, Fiona B. McDonald, Ken D. O'Halloran, 
  •  15 September 2023
No abstract is available for this article.
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Gut check: Unveiling the influence of acute exercise on the gut microbiota

Gregory J. Grosicki, Sean P. Langan, James R. Bagley, Andrew J. Galpin, Dan Garner, Jarrad T. Hampton-Marcell, Jacob M. Allen, Austin T. Robinson, 
  •  13 September 2023
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Secondary endings of muscle spindles: Structure, reflex action, role in motor control and proprioception

Robert W. Banks, Peter H. Ellaway, Arthur Prochazka, Uwe Proske, 
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Long COVID: mechanisms, risk factors and recovery

Rónan Astin, Amitava Banerjee, Mark R. Baker, Melanie Dani, Elizabeth Ford, James H. Hull, Phang Boon Lim, Melitta McNarry, Karl Morten, Oliver O'Sullivan, Etheresia Pretorius, Betty Raman, Demetris S. Soteropoulos, Maxime Taquet, Catherine N. Hall, 
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Zucker Diabetic‐Sprague Dawley (ZDSD) rat: Type 2 diabetes translational research model

Andrea N. Wang, Joselia Carlos, Graham M. Fraser, John J. McGuire, 

Are there sex differences in risk for exertional heat stroke? A translational approach

Gabrielle E. W. Giersch, Christian K. Garcia, Nina S. Stachenfeld, Nisha Charkoudian, 
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Nutritional approaches to counter performance constraints in high‐level sports competition

Louise M. Burke, 
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Development of the gut microbiome in early life

Sinead Ahearn-Ford, Janet E. Berrington, Christopher J. Stewart, 
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Evidence for impaired chronotropic responses to and recovery from 6‐minute walk test in women with post‐acute COVID‐19 syndrome

Marissa N. Baranauskas, Stephen J. Carter, 

Exertional heat stroke: an evidence based approach to clinical assessment and management

David W. DeGroot, Francis G. O'Connor, William O. Roberts, 

Changes in vastus lateralis fibre cross‐sectional area, pennation angle and fascicle length do not predict changes in muscle cross‐sectional area

Bradley A. Ruple, Paulo. H. C. Mesquita, Joshua S. Godwin, Casey L. Sexton, Shelby C. Osburn, Mason C. McIntosh, Andreas N. Kavazis, Cleiton A. Libardi, Kaelin C. Young, Michael D. Roberts, 
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The within‐ and between‐day reliability of cerebrovascular reactivity using traditional and novel analytical approaches

Jodie L. Koep, Max E. Weston, Alan R. Barker, Tom G. Bailey, Jeff S. Coombes, Alice Lester, Bert Bond, 
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Long COVID: mechanisms, risk factors and recovery

Rónan Astin, Amitava Banerjee, Mark R. Baker, Melanie Dani, Elizabeth Ford, James H. Hull, Phang Boon Lim, Melitta McNarry, Karl Morten, Oliver O'Sullivan, Etheresia Pretorius, Betty Raman, Demetris S. Soteropoulos, Maxime Taquet, Catherine N. Hall, 
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Early chronotype with metabolic syndrome favours resting and exercise fat oxidation in relation to insulin‐stimulated non‐oxidative glucose disposal

Steven K. Malin, Mary-Margaret E. Remchak, Anthony J. Smith, Tristan J. Ragland, Emily M. Heiston, Udeyvir Cheema, 
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LGD‐4033 and MK‐677 use impacts body composition, circulating biomarkers, and skeletal muscle androgenic hormone and receptor content: A case report

Thomas D. Cardaci, Steven B. Machek, Dylan T. Wilburn, Jeffery L. Heileson, Dillon R. Harris, Harry P. Cintineo, Darryn S. Willoughby, 
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Variability in exercise tolerance and physiological responses to exercise prescribed relative to physiological thresholds and to maximum oxygen uptake

Samuel Meyler, Lindsay Bottoms, David Wellsted, Daniel Muniz-Pumares, 
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Nutritional approaches to counter performance constraints in high‐level sports competition

Louise M. Burke, 
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Exogenous ketone supplementation: an emerging tool for physiologists with potential as a metabolic therapy

Kaja Falkenhain, Hashim Islam, Jonathan P. Little, 
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Exertional heat stroke in sport and the military: epidemiology and mitigation

Julien D. Périard, David DeGroot, Ollie Jay, 
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Effects of free weight and body mass‐based resistance training on thigh muscle size, strength and intramuscular fat in healthy young and middle‐aged individuals

Madoka Ogawa, Yuto Hashimoto, Yukina Mochizuki, Takamichi Inoguchi, Ayumu Kouzuma, Minoru Deguchi, Mika Saito, Hiroki Homma, Naoki Kikuchi, Takanobu Okamoto, 
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Critical power: a paradigm‐shift for benchmarking exercise testing and prescription

David C. Poole, Andrew M. Jones, 
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Development of the gut microbiome in early life

Sinead Ahearn-Ford, Janet E. Berrington, Christopher J. Stewart, 

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