Individual variation in response to altitude training

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1448-1456

  Chapman, Robert F ^b   Stray Gundersen, James ^b   Levine, Benjamin D ^a  

^a Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine Dallas   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Athletes; Erythropoietin; Exercise; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUNNING; TRAINING;

EID: 0031660720     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1998.85.4.1448     Document Type: Article

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