Muscle deoxygenation in the quadriceps during ramp incremental 1 cycling : deep versus superficial heterogeneity

Muscle deoxygenation in the quadriceps during ramp incremental 1 cycling: deep versus superficial heterogeneity 2 3 Dai Okushima, David C. Poole, Harry B. Rossiter, Thomas J. Barstow, Narihiko 4 Kondo, Etsuko Ohmae, Shunsaku Koga, 5 Applied Physiology Laboratory, Kobe Design University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; 6 Departments of Kinesiology and Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, 7 Manhattan, Kansas; Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Division of Respiratory & 8 Critical Care Physiology & Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at 9 Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA; Kobe University, Kobe; 10 Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Japan 11 12 Running head: Deep and superficial muscle deoxygenation during ramp test 13 Address for Correspondence: Shunsaku Koga, Ph.D. 14 Applied Physiology Laboratory, Kobe Design University 15 8-1-1 Gakuennishi-machi, Nishi-ku, Kobe, 651-2196, Japan 16 Telephone: +81 (78) 795-7447 Fax: +81 (78) 796-2559 Email: [email protected] 17 Articles in PresS. J Appl Physiol (September 24, 2015). doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00574.2015