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Overview

David C. Poole is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Medicine, with notable specialization in subfields such as Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Rehabilitation.

Their body of work encompasses a variety of topics centered on cardiovascular and exercise physiology, including heart rate variability and autonomic control, adipose tissue and metabolism, exercise and physiological responses, cardiovascular effects of exercise, sports performance and training, and cardiovascular function and risk factors.

Frequent publication venues for David C. Poole include:

  • Experimental Physiology
  • The Journal of Physiology
  • Physiology
  • Journal of Applied Physiology
  • The FASEB Journal

Among their recent papers are:

  • The anaerobic threshold: 50+ years of controversy (2020), published in The Journal of Physiology
  • Guidelines for animal exercise and training protocols for cardiovascular studies (2020), published in American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology
  • Relative Proximity of Critical Power and Metabolic/Ventilatory Thresholds: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2020), published in Sports Medicine
  • The role of vascular function on exercise capacity in health and disease (2020), published in The Journal of Physiology
  • August Krogh's theory of muscle microvascular control and oxygen delivery: a paradigm shift based on new data (2020), published in The Journal of Physiology

David C. Poole collaborates regularly with a consistent group of coauthors, including:

  • Timothy I. Musch
  • Kiana M. Schulze
  • Andrew G. Horn
  • Ramona E. Weber
  • Bradley J. Behnke

The range of their publications and collaborations indicates a sustained research interest in cardiovascular physiology as well as the physiological adaptations to exercise and disease states. The scientist has contributed extensively to understanding the relationship between vascular function, exercise capacity, and metabolic thresholds over decades of research.

Best Publications

  • Metabolic and respiratory profile of the upper limit for prolonged exercise in man

    David C. Poole;Susan A. Ward;Gerald W. Gardner;Brian J. Whipp

  • The slow component of oxygen uptake kinetics in humans.

    Glenn A. Gaesser;David C. Poole

  • Critical Power: Implications for Determination of V˙O2max and Exercise Tolerance

    Andrew M. Jones;Anni Vanhatalo;Mark Burnley;R. Hugh Morton

  • Muscle O2 uptake kinetics in humans: implications for metabolic control

    B. Grassi;D. C. Poole;R. S. Richardson;D. R. Knight

  • Muscle metabolic responses to exercise above and below the "critical power" assessed using 31P-MRS.

    Andrew M. Jones;Daryl P. Wilkerson;Fred DiMenna;Jonathan Fulford

  • Oxygen Uptake Kinetics

    David C. Poole;Andrew M. Jones

  • Validity of criteria for establishing maximal O2 uptake during ramp exercise tests.

    David C. Poole;Daryl P. Wilkerson;Andrew M. Jones

  • Contribution of excising legs to the slow component of oxygen uptake kinetics in humans

    David C. Poole;Walter Schaffartzik;Douglas R. Knight;Toni Derion

  • Critical Power: An Important Fatigue Threshold in Exercise Physiology.

    David C. Poole;Mark Burnley;Anni Vanhatalo;Harry B. Rossiter

  • Measurement of the maximum oxygen uptake V̇o2max: V̇o2peak is no longer acceptable

    David C. Poole;Andrew M. Jones

  • Response of ventilatory and lactate thresholds to continuous and interval training

    David C. Poole;Glenn A. Gaesser

  • Slow component of VO2 kinetics: mechanistic bases and practical applications.

    Andrew M. Jones;Bruno Grassi;Peter M. Christensen;Peter Krustrup

  • Impact of dietary nitrate supplementation via beetroot juice on exercising muscle vascular control in rats

    Scott K. Ferguson;Daniel M. Hirai;Steven W. Copp;Clark T. Holdsworth

  • The effects of training on the metabolic and respiratory profile of high-intensity cycle ergometer exercise.

    David C. Poole;Susan A. Ward;Brian J. Whipp

  • Effect of Inorganic Nitrate on Exercise Capacity in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Payman Zamani;Deepa Rawat;Prithvi Shiva-Kumar;Salvatore Geraci

  • The relationship between power and the time to achieve .VO(2max).

    David W Hill;David C Poole;Jimmy C Smith

  • High muscle blood flow in man: is maximal O2 extraction compromised?

    R. S. Richardson;D. C. Poole;D. R. Knight;S. S. Kurdak

  • Muscle oxygen transport and utilization in heart failure: implications for exercise (in)tolerance.

    David C. Poole;Daniel M. Hirai;Steven W. Copp;Timothy I. Musch

  • Effects of training on muscle O2 transport at VO2max

    J. Roca;A. G. N. Agusti;A. Alonso;D. C. Poole

  • Effects of hyperoxia on maximal leg O2 supply and utilization in men

    D. R. Knight;W. Schaffartzik;D. C. Poole;M. C. Hogan

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew M. Jones
Andrew M. Jones University of Exeter
Peter D. Wagner
Peter D. Wagner University of California, San Diego
Russell S. Richardson
Russell S. Richardson University of Utah
Julio A. Chirinos
Julio A. Chirinos University of Pennsylvania
Raymond R. Townsend
Raymond R. Townsend University of Pennsylvania
Kenneth B. Margulies
Kenneth B. Margulies University of Pennsylvania
Harry Ischiropoulos
Harry Ischiropoulos Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
George A. Brooks
George A. Brooks University of California, Berkeley
Josep Roca
Josep Roca University of Barcelona
David F. Wilson
David F. Wilson University of Pennsylvania

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