Increased brain capillaries in chronic hypoxia

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1211-1219

  Boero, Jaime A ^a,b   Ascher, Jonathan ^b   Arregui, Alberto ^a   Rovainen, Carl ^b   Woolsey, Thomas A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary remodeling; Whisker barrels

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN HYPOXIA; HYPOBARISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032913463     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1999.86.4.1211     Document Type: Article

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