Limiting factors to oxygen transport on Mount Everest 30 years after: A critique of Paolo Cerretelli's contribution to the study of altitude physiology

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 344-350

  Ferretti, Guido ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b Centre Medical Universitaire   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Altitude adaptation; Humans; Lactate; Maximum oxygen consumption limitation; Muscle morphometry

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ARTERIES; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CAPILLARIES; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIA; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

EID: 0344394203     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-003-0923-2     Document Type: Review

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