Theoretical Analysis of Oxygen Supply to Contracted Skeletal Muscle

During the last years a number of authors, especially HONIG and co-workers, worked on the subject of oxygen supply to skeletal muscle and related topics. Nevertheless, up to date no global theoretical model describing adequately the entire O₂ transport process to muscle has been developped,even though most efforts restricted themselves to skeletal muscle, working completely aerobically at maximum O₂ uptake (\(\dot V_{O_2 \max }\)), in which all motor units are stimulated at each contraction. Reasons for this dilemma are: Only part of the physiological parameters needed for model calculations have been measured under conditions which were presumed for the model. To yield a complete description, a number of quite heterogeneous and apparently incompatible theories and models from diverse branches of physiology and mathematics have to be integrated, which has not been achieved up to now. Keywords Skeletal Muscle Diffusion Layer Resistance Layer Saturation Time Functional Capillary Density These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.