American Physiological Society, Journal of Applied Physiology, 6(129), p. 1355-1364, 2020
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00562.2020
Full text: Unavailable
The effect of oral contraceptive use on the skeletal muscle regulatory pathways in response to resistance training has not been investigated previously. Here we present novel data, demonstrating that use of second-generation oral contraceptives in young untrained women increased skeletal muscle regulatory factor 4 expression and satellite cell number following 10 wk of resistance training compared with nonusers.