Inhaled nitric oxide improves survival in the rat model of high-altitude pulmonary edema

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 251-256

  Omura, Alexander ^a   Roy, Rob ^a   Jennings, Timothy ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Altitude sickness; High altitude pulmonary edema; Hypoxia; Mountaineering; Nitric oxide; Pulmonary edema; Pulmonary hypertension; Rat; Vasodilator

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVIMETRY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOBARISM; INHALATION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG FLUID; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN THERAPY; SURVIVAL; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0034500757     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2000)011[0251:INOISI]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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