Chronic hypoxia affects capillary density and geometry in pigeon pectoralis muscle

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-52

  Mathieu Costello, O ^a   Agey, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird, pigeon; Capillary, dimension, muscle; Hypoxia, muscle, capillarization, fiber geometry; Muscle, capillarization, ultrastructure, altitude

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOXIA; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE CAPILLARY; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030751154     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(97)84028-5     Document Type: Article

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