Second generation Tibetan lowlanders acclimatize to high altitude more quickly than Caucasians

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 556, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 661-671

  Marconi, Claudio ^a   Marzorati, Mauro ^a   Grassi, Bruno ^a   Basnyat, Buddha ^a   Colombini, Angelo ^a   Kayser, Bengt ^a,b   Cerretelli, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXERCISE; EXPOSURE; FITNESS; GAS EXCHANGE; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; TRAINING; VOLUNTEER; ADULT; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; NEPAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STEADY STATE; TIBETAN (PEOPLE);

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TIBET;

EID: 2342567729     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.059188     Document Type: Article

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