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Abstract
Heat acclimation enhances cardiac efficiency by increasing stroke volume and decreasing heart rate. These adaptations involve biochemical changes in the contractile apparatus, switched on by altered expression of genes coding contractile and calcium-regulatory proteins and partially mediated by persistent low thyroxine. Heat acclimation also produces cross-tolerance to oxygen deprivation, thus reinforcing cardiac adaptation to oxygen demand/supply mismatching via energy-sparing pathways.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14614152 DOI: 10.1152/nips.01453.2003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: News Physiol Sci ISSN: 0886-1714