Body temperature, autonomic responses, and acute mountain sickness

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-373

  Loeppky, Jack A ^a   Icenogle, Milton V ^a   Maes, Damon ^b   Riboni, Katrina ^c   Scotto, Pietro ^d   Roach, Robert C ^e  

^a VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^e New Mexico Resonance   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness (AMS); Autonomic nervous system; Body temperature; Catecholamines; Sympathetic nervous system; Vasodilation; Vasovagal reaction

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BETA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THERMOMETER; VASODILATATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATECHOLAMINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REST;

EID: 0141891407     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702903769192322     Document Type: Article

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