Splenic contraction-induced reversible increase in hemoglobin concentration in intermittent hypoxia

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 181-187

  Kuwahira, Ichiro ^a   Kamiya, Uguri ^a   Iwamoto, Tokuzen ^a   Moue, Yoshihiro ^a   Urano, Tetsuya ^a   Ohta, Yasuyo ^a   Gonzalez, Norberto C ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Oxygen delivery; Sprague Dawley rat; 2 Adrenoreceptor

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN; OXYMETAZOLINE; PHENTOLAMINE;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ALPHA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; HYPOXIA; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 0032939625     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1999.86.1.181     Document Type: Article

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