1. Bathing before sleep in the young and in the elderly

   • Kiyoko Kanda
   • Yutaka Tochihara
   • Tadakatsu Ohnaka

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 71 - 75

2. Influence of menstrual cycle and oral contraceptives on tolerance to uncompensable heat stress

   • Sandra A. Tenaglia
   • Tom M. McLellan
   • Panagiota P. Klentrou

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 76 - 83

3. Expression of developmental myosin and morphological characteristics in adult rat skeletal muscle following exercise-induced injury

   • H. K. Smith
   • M. J. Plyley
   • N. H. McKee

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 84 - 91

4. Effect of carbohydrate ingestion and hormonal responses on ratings of perceived exertion during prolonged cycling and running

   • Alan C. Utter
   • Jie Kang
   • Diane E. Butterworth

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 92 - 99

5. Effects of movement speed and joint position on knee flexor torque in healthy and post-surgical subjects

   • Louis R. Osternig
   • Charles R. James
   • David Bercades

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 100 - 106

6. Do fire-fighters develop specific ventilatory responses in order to cope with exercise whilst wearing self-contained breathing apparatus?

   • K. J. Donovan
   • A. K. McConnell

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 107 - 112

7. Changes in membrane fluidity and lipid peroxidation of skeletal muscle mitochondria after exhausting exercise in rats

   • J. X. Li
   • C. W. C. Tong
   • K. M. Chan

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 113 - 117

8. Breath-to-breath “noise” in the ventilatory and gas exchange responses of children to exercise

   • C. R. Potter
   • D. J. Childs
   • N. Armstrong

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 118 - 124

9. Plasma catecholamine responses to four resistance exercise tests in men and women

   • Teemu Pullinen
   • Caroline Nicol
   • Paavo V. Komi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 125 - 131

10. Water immersion delays the oxygen uptake response to sitting arm-cranking in humans

    • Naoyuki Hayashi
    • Takayoshi Yoshida

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 132 - 138

11. Effects of 30 days of creatine ingestion in older men

    • Eric S. Rawson
    • Melissa L. Wehnert
    • Priscilla M. Clarkson

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 139 - 144

12. Variability of the fatigue response of paralyzed skeletal muscle in relation to the time after spinal cord injury: mechanical and electrophysiological characteristics

    • M. Gaviria
    • F. Ohanna

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 145 - 153

13. Effects of aerobic exercise on serum leptin levels in obese women

    • R. R. Kraemer
    • G. R. Kraemer
    • V. D. Castracane

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 154 - 158

14. Determination of the velocity associated with the longest time to exhaustion at maximal oxygen uptake

    • V. L. Billat
    • N. Blondel
    • S. Berthoin

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 159 - 161

15. The concept of critical velocity: a brief analysis

    • Pietro Enrico di Prampero

    COMMENT BY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Pages: 162 - 164

16. Effects of training and creatine supplement on muscle strength and body mass

    • Marc Francaux
    • J. R. Poortmans

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 165 - 168

17. Echocardiographic evidence of concentric left ventricular enlargement in female weight lifters

    • A. Urhausen
    • W. Kindermann

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR Pages: 169 - 170

18. Response to a letter-to-the-editor from Professors Urhausen and Kindermann regarding our article “Echocardiographic evidence of concentric left ventricular enlargement in female weight-lifters” [George et al., Eur J Appl Physiol (1998) 79: 88–92]

    • Keith George
    • Alan Batterham
    • Bryan Jones

    REPLY Pages: 171 - 172