Persistence of the lactate paradox over 8 weeks at 3800 m

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-443

  Pronk, Marieke ^a   Tiemessen, Ivo ^a   Hupperets, Maarten D W ^a   Kennedy, Brian P ^a   Powell, Frank L ^a,b   Hopkins, Susan R ^a   Wagner, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Altitude; Catecholamines; Exercise; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; LACTIC ACID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; REST; WORKLOAD;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOXIA; CALIFORNIA; EPINEPHRINE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NOREPINEPHRINE; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0346025585     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702903322616182     Document Type: Article

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