Respiratory changes during initial days of acclimatization to increasing altitudes

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-45

  Basu, C K ^a   Selvamurthy, W ^a   Bhaumick, G ^a   Gautam, R K ^a   Sawhney, R C ^a  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; HUMANS; HYPERVENTILATION; MALE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TIME FACTORS; VITAL CAPACITY;

FROG ERYTHROCYTIC VIRUS; SIGANUS;

EID: 0030041477     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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