High altitude medicine and physiology in the former Soviet Union

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 576-584

  Gippenreiter, Eugene ^a   West, John B ^b,c  

^a N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CITRIC ACID; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ENZYME; LACTIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACID; OXYGEN; PROTEIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACID BASE BALANCE; ADAPTATION; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; BLOOD; CLIMATOTHERAPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; METABOLISM; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PH; RESEARCH; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW; STRESS; USSR;

NASA DISCIPLINE CARDIOPULMONARY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ALTITUDE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTRAITS; USSR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029901808     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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