The biology of exercise : a subject collection from Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine / edited by Juleen R. Zierath, Karolinska Institutet, Michael J. Joyner, Mayo Clinic and John A. Hawley, Australian Catholic University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Physiological Redundancy and the Integrative Responses to Exercise / Michael J. Joyner and Jerome A. Dempsey -- The Bioenergetics of Exercise / P. Darrell Neufer -- Health Benefits of Exercise / Gregory N. Ruegsegger and Frank W. Booth -- Theoretical and Biological Evaluation of the Link between Low Exercise Capacity and Disease Risk / Lauren Gerard Koch and Steven L. Britton -- Exercise Metabolism: Fuels for the Fire / Mark Hargreaves and Lawrence L. Spriet -- Molecular Basis of Exercise-Induced Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Biogenesis: Historical Advances, Current Knowledge, and Future Challenges / Christopher G.R. Perry and John A. Hawley -- Rate Coding and the Control of Muscle Force / Roger M. Enoka and Jacques Duchateau -- Molecular Basis for Exercise-Induced Fatigue: The Importance of Strictly Controlled Cellular Ca2+ Handling / Arthur J. Cheng, Nicolas Place, and Håkan Westerblad -- Performance Fatigability: Mechanisms and Task Specificity / Sandra K. Hunter -- Molecular Regulation of Exercise-Induced Muscle Fiber Hypertrophy / Marcas M. Bamman, Brandon M. Roberts, and Gregory R. Adams -- Adaptations to Endurance and Strength Training / David C. Hughes, Stian Ellefsen, and Keith Baar -- Autophagy-Dependent Beneficial Effects of Exercise / Jens Frey Halling and Henriette Pilegaard -- Effects of Exercise and Aging on Skeletal Muscle / Giovanna Distefano and Bret H. Goodpaster -- On the Run for Hippocampal Plasticity / C'iana Cooper, Hyo Youl Moon, and Henriette van Praag -- Skeletal Muscle as an Endocrine Organ: The Role of Myokines in Exercise Adaptations / Christoph Hoffmann and Cora Weigert -- Muscle-Adipose Tissue Cross Talk / Kristin I. Stanford and Laurie J. Goodyear -- Effects of Exercise on Vascular Function, Structure, and Health in Humans / Daniel J. Green and Kurt J. Smith -- Exosomes as Mediators of the Systemic Adaptations to Endurance Exercise / Adeel Safdar and Mark A. Tarnopolsky -- Role of Nuclear Receptors in Exercise-Induced Muscle Adaptations / Barbara Kupr, Svenia Schnyder, and Christoph Handschin -- Control of Muscle Metabolism by the Mediator Complex / Leonela Amoasii, Eric N. Olson, and Rhonda Bassel-Duby -- The Role of MicroRNAs in the Cardiac Response to Exercise / Xiaojun Liu, Colin Platt, and Anthony Rosenzweig -- Exercise and the Skeletal Muscle Epigenome / Sean L. McGee and Ken R. Walder -- Omics and Exercise: Global Approaches for Mapping Exercise Biological Networks / Nolan J. Hoffman -- Index.

"Exercise training provokes widespread transformations in the human body, requiring coordinated changes in muscle composition, blood flow, neuronal and hormonal signaling, and metabolism. These changes enhance physical performance, improve mental health, and delay the onset of aging and disease. Understanding the molecular basis of these changes is therefore important for optimizing athletic ability and for developing drugs that elicit therapeutic effects. Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine examines the biological basis of exercise from the molecular to the systemic levels."--Publisher's website.