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Original articles

• Open versus closed kinetic chain exercises for patellar chondromalacia (5 July, 2007)

  A H Bakhtiary, E Fatemi
• Consumption of anabolic steroids in sport, physical activity and as a drug of abuse: an analysis of the scientific literature and areas of research (4 June, 2007)

  V Agulló-Calatayud, G González-Alcaide, J C Valderrama-Zurián, R Aleixandre-Benavent
• The effect of protective headgear on head injuries and concussions in adolescent football (soccer) players (5 July, 2007)

  J S Delaney, A Al-Kashmiri, R Drummond, J A Correa
• Hormonal responses to a 160-km race across frozen Alaska (17 July, 2007)

  W J Kraemer, M S Fragala, G Watson, J S Volek, M R Rubin, D N French, C M Maresh, J L Vingren, D L Hatfield, B A Spiering, J Yu-Ho, S L Hughes, H S Case, K J Stuempfle, D R Lehmann, S Bailey, D S Evans
• Effect of a multistage ultra-endurance triathlon on body composition: World Challenge Deca Iron Triathlon 2006 (29 June, 2007)

  B Knechtle, O Salas Fraire, J L Andonie, G Kohler
• Long-term endurance exercise decreases antiangiogenic endostatin signalling in overweight men aged 50–60 years (23 July, 2007)

  K Brixius, S Schoenberger, D Ladage, H Knigge, G Falkowski, M Hellmich, C Graf, J Latsch, G l Montie, G l Prede, W Bloch
• Effect of tadalafil on anaerobic performance indices in healthy athletes (22 June, 2007)

  L Guidetti, G P Emerenziani, M C Gallotta, F Pigozzi, L Di Luigi, C Baldari
• The I allele of the ACE gene is associated with improved exercise capacity in women with McArdle disease

  (6 July, 2007)

  F Gómez-Gallego, C Santiago, M Morán, M Pérez, J L Maté-Muñoz, M Fernández del Valle, J C Rubio, I Garcia-Consuegra, C Foster, I A L Andreu, M A Martín, J Arenas, A Lucia
• Circuit weight training and cardiac morphology: a trial with magnetic resonance imaging (22 June, 2007)

  M D Camargo, R Stein, J P Ribeiro, P R Schvartzman, M O Rizzatti, B D Schaan
• Quantification of the physiological and performance characteristics of on-court tennis drills (6 August, 2007)

  M Reid, R Duffield, B Dawson, J Baker, M Crespo