High altitude living: Genetic and environmental adaptation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-81

  Ramirez, German ^a,c   Bittle, Polly A ^a   Rosen, Raquel ^a   Rabb, Hamid ^a   Pineda, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE NARIÑO   (Colombia)

^c Div of Nephrology and Hypertension   (United States)

Author keywords

High altitude; Physiological changes

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FLUID BALANCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXEMIA; MOUNTAINEERING; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANOXEMIA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032924781     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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