Journal Evaluation - The Regulation and Expression of the Creatine Transporter

Journal Article Evaluation

Schoch, Ryan D. "The Regulation and Expression of the Creatine Transporter." Journal of the Internatioinal Society of Sports Nutrition 3.1 (2006): 60. PubMed. 1 July 2008

Strategy for Finding the Journal Article

I used Pubmed as a search engine to find this scholarly article. As key words I found "dieting and athletic performance" to work best for my research question.

Rational for selection of this article

Many different articles came up and many seemed useful. Yet all of this journals seemed too specific and only talked about one thing that had to do with my topic. I felt it was much easier when I searched for a book last week on my topic. Since I had to choose a journal I felt that the best was "The Regulation and Expression of the Creatine Transporter". I found this useful because it talked about the suplemental use that are common in many athletes and how if affects the body. Since suplements are a big part of dieting in sports.

General Evaluation of this Article

This article is from a medical search engine. This is why there is a lot of science involved all through the journal. The author informs us about the effects creatine has on certain cells in the human body.

Example of Stratagies used to search within the article

My article was reasonably short and I found it pretty interesting. At first it was a little hard to read but after a few times I became familiar with what the author was talking about.

A brief summary of information yielded from the article

This article was very well written and gave me a good idea of how creatine affects the body. The journal tells us that it affects cells in which usually ends up with a postitive athletic performance. Although creatine usually helps, sometime the affects may vary. Also if you do not diet the right way while taking it, creatine may back fire and hurt your body physically.