1. Heart rate is lower during ergometer rowing than during treadmill running

   • Chie C. Yoshiga
   • Mitsuru Higuchi

   Original Article Pages: 97 - 100

2. Hyperbaric oxygenation mitigates focal cerebral injury and reduces striatal dopamine release in a rat model of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion

   • Zhong-jin Yang
   • Cristina Camporesi
   • Enrico M. Camporesi

   Original Article Pages: 101 - 107

3. Leptin reduction after endurance races differing in duration and energy expenditure

   • Marco Zaccaria
   • Andrea Ermolao
   • Maurizio Varnier

   Original Article Pages: 108 - 111

4. Effects of equivolume isometric training programs comprising medium or high resistance on muscle size and strength

   • H. Kanehisa
   • H. Nagareda
   • T. Fukunaga

   Original Article Pages: 112 - 119

5. Effect of support stimulation on unloaded soleus in rat

   • Tatiana L. Nemirovskaya
   • Boris S. Shenkman

   Original Article Pages: 120 - 126

6. Can increased intra-abdominal pressure in humans be decoupled from trunk muscle co-contraction during steady state isometric exertions?

   • Jacek Cholewicki
   • Paul C. Ivancic
   • Andrea Radebold

   Original Article Pages: 127 - 133

7. Effect of exercise on blood pressure in rats with chronic NOS inhibition

   • Oktay Kuru
   • Ümit Şentürk
   • Metin Erkılıç

   Original Article Pages: 134 - 140

8. Effects of sprint exercise on oxidative stress in skeletal muscle and liver

   • Berkant Kayatekin
   • Sevil Gönenç
   • Ayfer Dayi

   Original Article Pages: 141 - 144

9. Exercise-induced oxyhaemoglobin desaturation, ventilatory limitation and lung diffusing capacity in women during and after exercise

   • Justin Walls
   • Michael Maskrey
   • Wade Stedman

   Original Article Pages: 145 - 152

10. Effect of moderate exercise on salivary immunoglobulin A and infection risk in humans

    • Panagiota Klentrou
    • Thomas Cieslak
    • Michael Plyley

    Original Article Pages: 153 - 158

11. Reproducibility of the blood lactate threshold, 4 mmol·l^–1 marker, heart rate and ratings of perceived exertion during incremental treadmill exercise in humans

    • S. Grant
    • K. McMillan
    • S. Fairlie-Clark

    Orginal Article Pages: 159 - 166

12. Intra-abdominal pressure increases during exhausting back extension in humans

    • M. Essendrop
    • B. Schibye
    • C. Hye-Knudsen

    Original Article Pages: 167 - 173

13. Autonomic control of the cardiovascular system during sleep in normal subjects

    • A. Monti
    • C. Medigue
    • P. Escourrou

    Original Article Pages: 174 - 181

14. Changes in skeletal muscle myosin heavy chain isoform content during congestive heart failure

    • Espen E. Spangenburg
    • Robert J. Talmadge
    • Jay H. Williams

    Original Article Pages: 182 - 186

15. Enhanced chemosensitivity after intermittent hypoxic exposure does not affect exercise ventilation at sea level

    • Keisho Katayama
    • Yasutake Sato
    • Miharu Miyamura

    Short Communication Pages: 187 - 191