Exercise and muscle
Published human studies that measured muscle carnosine, muscle buffering or exercise performance. Most raised muscle carnosine with beta-alanine, the precursor, rather than with carnosine itself.
This page lists published studies. It reports what the authors did and found, with the limits of each study. It is not advice.
44 studies listed, newest first.
- Topical carnosine gel improves intermittent high-intensity exercise performance in world-class rugby sevens playersRandomised controlled trialHumansTopical
- Carnosine, small but mighty: prospect of use as functional ingredient for functional food formulationReviewHumansOther animals
- Carnosine in health and diseaseReviewHumansOther animals
- A Systematic Risk Assessment and Meta-Analysis on the Use of Oral beta-Alanine SupplementationMeta-analysisHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- beta-alanine supplementation to improve exercise capacity and performance: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Zinc carnosine works with bovine colostrum in truncating heavy exercise-induced increase in gut permeability in healthy volunteersRandomised controlled trialHumansWith zinc (as polaprezinc / zinc-L-carnosine); bovine colostrum in two arms
- Evaluation of the efficacy of Lactigo topical gel as an ergogenic aidOpen-label, no control groupHumansTopicalWith LactiGo gel (carnosine-magnesium complex) applied over a warm-up cream
- Effects of oral administration of orodispersible levo-carnosine on quality of life and exercise performance in patients with chronic heart failureRandomised controlled trialHumans
- Anserine and carnosine supplementation in the elderly: Effects on cognitive functioning and physical capacityRandomised controlled trialHumansWith anserine (2:1 anserine to carnosine, from chicken meat extract)
- Physiology and pathophysiology of carnosineReviewHumansOther animals
- Meal and beta-alanine coingestion enhances muscle carnosine loadingControlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- The influence of sex, age and heritability on human skeletal muscle carnosine contentObservational studyHumans
- Carnosine: new concept for the function of an old moleculeReviewHumansOther animals
- Beta-alanine (Carnosyn) supplementation in elderly subjects (60-80 years): effects on muscle carnosine content and physical capacityRandomised controlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Effects of carnosine on contractile apparatus Ca2+ sensitivity and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release in human skeletal muscle fibersLaboratory studyHumans
- Determinants of muscle carnosine contentReviewHumansHorses
- Effects of beta-alanine supplementation on exercise performance: a meta-analysisMeta-analysisHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Optimizing human in vivo dosing and delivery of beta-alanine supplements for muscle carnosine synthesisReviewHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Effects of sprint training combined with vegetarian or mixed diet on muscle carnosine content and buffering capacityControlled trialHumans
- Vegetarianism, female gender and increasing age, but not CNDP1 genotype, are associated with reduced muscle carnosine levels in humansObservational studyHumans
- Important role of muscle carnosine in rowing performanceRandomised controlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Muscle carnosine metabolism and beta-alanine supplementation in relation to exercise and trainingReviewHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Effect of beta-alanine supplementation on muscle carnosine concentrations and exercise performanceReviewHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Carnosine loading and washout in human skeletal musclesRandomised controlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- The effect of 4 weeks beta-alanine supplementation and isokinetic training on carnosine concentrations in type I and II human skeletal muscle fibresControlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Beta-alanine improves sprint performance in endurance cyclingRandomised controlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- The effects of 10 weeks of resistance training combined with beta-alanine supplementation on whole body strength, force production, muscular endurance and body compositionRandomised controlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor) with resistance training
- Beta-alanine supplementation augments muscle carnosine content and attenuates fatigue during repeated isokinetic contraction bouts in trained sprintersRandomised controlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Influence of beta-alanine supplementation on skeletal muscle carnosine concentrations and high intensity cycling capacityControlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- Carnosine, taurine and enzyme activities of human skeletal muscle fibres from elderly subjects with osteoarthritis and young moderately active subjectsObservational studyHumans
- The absorption of orally supplied beta-alanine and its effect on muscle carnosine synthesis in human vastus lateralisControlled trialHumansWith beta-alanine (carnosine precursor)
- The carnosine content of vastus lateralis is elevated in resistance-trained bodybuildersObservational studyHumans
- The effect of sprint training on skeletal muscle carnosine in humansOpen-label, no control groupHumans
- High level of skeletal muscle carnosine contributes to the latter half of exercise performance during 30-s maximal cycle ergometer sprintingObservational studyHumans
- Concentrations of free carnosine (a putative membrane-protective antioxidant) in human muscle biopsies and rat musclesObservational studyHumansOther animals
- Carnosine and taurine contents in individual fibres of human vastus lateralis muscleLaboratory studyHumans
- Effects of isokinetic training of the knee extensors on high-intensity exercise performance and skeletal muscle bufferingControlled trialHumans
- Carnosine and anserine concentrations in the quadriceps femoris muscle of healthy humansObservational studyHumans
- The histidine-containing dipeptides, carnosine and anserine: distribution, properties and biological significanceReviewOther animalsHumans
- Muscle buffering capacity and dipeptide content in the Thoroughbred horse, greyhound dog and manObservational studyHorsesDogsHumans
- Intracellular pH in human skeletal muscle by 1H NMRLaboratory studyHumans
- Buffering capacity of deproteinized human vastus lateralis muscleObservational studyHumans
- Possible contribution of skeletal muscle buffers to enhanced anaerobic performance: a brief reviewReviewHumans
- Glycogen, glycolytic intermediates and high-energy phosphates determined in biopsy samples of musculus quadriceps femoris of man at rest. Methods and variance of valuesLaboratory studyHumans