Capillary Red Cell Transit Time Is an Important Contributor to Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Diffusion Limitation: Response to Zavorsky

Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2024 Aug 1;56(8):1546-1548. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003430. Epub 2024 Mar 29.

Authors

Susan R Hopkins¹, Jerome A Dempsey², Michael K Stickland

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
² John Rankin Lab of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.

PMID: 38555488
PMCID: PMC11250720 (available on 2025-08-01)
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003430

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Capillaries / physiology
Erythrocytes / metabolism
Erythrocytes / physiology
Exercise* / physiology
Humans
Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity / physiology

Grants and funding

R56 HL159710/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States