Table 1.
Pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics during supramaximal exercise in the control (C) and l-NAME (L) conditions
V̇O2B (ml min−1) | Ap′ (ml min−1) | TDp (s) | τp (s) | As′ (ml min−1) | TDs (s) | V̇2EE (ml min−1) | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subj. | C | L | C | L | C | L | C | L | C | L | C | L | C | L |
1 | 654 | 606 | 2521 | 2438 | 21.0 | 29.8 | 31.3 | 15.0 | 275 | 368 | 114 | 65 | 2796 | 2806 |
2 | 831 | 708 | 3308 | 3193 | 16.9 | 19.7 | 46.7 | 34.1 | 474 | 475 | 133 | 122 | 3782 | 3668 |
3 | 640 | 664 | 2708 | 2585 | 12.1 | 13.3 | 21.8 | 18.2 | — | — | — | — | 2708 | 2585 |
4 | 738 | 783 | 2050 | 1853 | 14.8 | 23.6 | 45.5 | 25.2 | — | 344 | — | 120 | 2050 | 2197 |
5 | 886 | 913 | 3763 | 3325 | 15.6 | 20.7 | 65.2 | 22.7 | — | — | — | — | 3763 | 3325 |
6 | 782 | 650 | 2276 | 2126 | 13.2 | 17.6 | 30.0 | 20.0 | 1154 | 703 | 121 | 86 | 3430 | 2829 |
7 | 748 | 687 | 2755 | 2395 | 20.8 | 25.1 | 13.9 | 7.7 | 306 | 878 | 80 | 78 | 3061 | 3273 |
Mean | 754 | 716 | 2769 | 2559 | 16.3 | 21.4 | 36.3 | 20.4 | 552 | 606 | 112 | 88 | 3084 | 2955 |
s.d. | 89 | 103 | 592 | 535 | 3.5 | 5.4 | 17.3 | 8.3 | 411 | 229 | 25 | 24 | 627 | 499 |
P | 0.21 | 0.007 | 0.003 | 0.01 | 0.81 | 0.11 | 0.29 |
V̇O2B, baseline V̇O2; Ap′, amplitude of phase II V̇O2 response; TDp, time delay before phase II V̇O2 response; τp, time constant of phase II V̇O2 response; As′, amplitude of slow component at the end of exercise; TDs, time delay before onset of slow component; V̇O2EE, end-exercise V̇O2; Subj., subject.