The increase in ventilation during maximal exercise
A. May exceed 100 litres/minute in a young 70 kg adult.
B. Is smaller when the exercise is performed at high altitudes.
C. Is related in part to a fall in pH due to lactic acidosis.
D. Is related in part to stimulation of receptors in muscle (‘metaboreceptors’) by metabolic products of exercise.
E. Does not involve the brain above the level of the brain stem (pons, midbrain and medulla).