An ethiopian pattern of human adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 99, Issue 26, 2002, Pages 17215-17218

  Beall, Cynthia M ^a   Decker, Michael J ^b   Brittenham, Gary M ^c   Kushner, Irving ^d   Gebremedhin, Amha ^e   Strohl, Kingman P ^d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTOSIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXEMIA; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN;

EID: 0037168672     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.252649199     Document Type: Article

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