Muscle adaptation to altitude: Tissue capillarity and capacity for aerobic metabolism

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 413-425

  Mathieu Costello, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Bird; Capillaries; Cold; Enzymes; Hypoxia; Muscle mass; Myoglobin; Skeletal muscle; Training; Ultrastructure; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL TISSUE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HYPOXIA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAMMAL; MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECIES; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BIRDS; CAPILLARIES; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGLOBIN; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0035197250     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/15270290152608598     Document Type: Short Survey

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