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Bioblast alert #01 (2011-11-11)

• O2k-Fluorimetry Workshop IOC66: 2012-03-15 to 16. OROBOROS INSTRUMENTS, Innsbruck, Austria. The first series of the O2k-Fluorescence Module will be delivered in April 2012, for orders received by end of January 2012.
• O2k-Publication: A key question on the separation of qualitative versus quantitative change of mitochondrial function is addressed in a new O2k-Publication. Does training induce mild uncoupling? Are sedentary humans healthy controls?

Pesta D, Hoppel F, Macek C, Messner H, Faulhaber M, Kobel C, Parson W, Burtscher M, Schocke M, Gnaiger E (2011) Similar qualitative and quantitative changes of mitochondrial respiration following strength and endurance training in normoxia and hypoxia in sedentary humans. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 301: R1078–R1087.

• Scientific service: ETS capacity plays a key role in such analyses, which cannot be achieved quantitatively without careful uncoupler titrations.
• Term of the month: Basal respiration - a hallmark of high-resolution respirometry is a matching high-resolution terminology.