Oral L-citrulline supplementation enhances cycling time trial performance in healthy trained men: Double-blind randomized placebo-controlled 2-way crossover study
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- 作者：Takashi Suzuki ; Masahiko Morita…
- 关键词：Ergogenic ; Human ; L ; Citrulline ; Nitric oxide (NO) ; Sport performance
- 刊名：Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：13
- 期：1
- 全文大小：828 KB
- 刊物主题：Sports Medicine; Nutrition;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1550-2783
文摘
Background Many human studies report that nitric oxide (NO) improves sport performance. This is because NO is a potential modulator of blood flow, muscle energy metabolism, and mitochondrial respiration during exercise. L-Citrulline is an amino acid present in the body and is a potent endogenous precursor of L-arginine, which is a substrate for NO synthase. Here, we investigated the effect of oral L-citrulline supplementation on cycling time trial performance in humans.