Basilar artery blood flow velocity and the ventilatory response to acute hypoxia in mountaineers

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 65-74

  Jansen, Gerard F A ^a   Kagenaar, Dick A ^b   Basnyat, Buddha ^c   Odoom, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Flevoziekenhuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^c NEPAL INTERNATIONAL CLINIC   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Blood, flow, brainstem, hypoxia; Control of breathing, hypoxic ventilatory response; Hypoxia, ventilatory response; Mammals, humans; Mountain, climbing, brainstem blood flow

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BREATHING; CARBON DIOXIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOCAPNIA; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DRIVE;

EID: 0037164139     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-9048(02)00152-0     Document Type: Article

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