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Nitrate and exercise with Dr Andrew Coggan

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The Role of Nitrogen in Muscle Contractile Cycling

One possibility would be nitrocellation of a specific cystine residue in the ryanidine receptor. At high frequencies, you're releasing enough calcium that you basically apparently saturated the contractile apparatus. Another possibility is while we emphasize or we classically have focused on thin filament regulation of muscle contractile cycling, there's considerable evidence now that the thick filament itself is regulated. The difficult part of course is getting at these questions in humans.

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