The role of dehydroepiandrosterone levels on physiologic acclimatization to chronic mountaineering activity

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 228-236

  Lee, Wen Chih ^a   Chen, Shu Man ^a   Wu, Min Chieh ^b   Hou, Chien Wen ^b   Lai, Yu Chiang ^b   Laio, Yi Hung ^b   Lin, Chin Hung ^c   Kuo, Chia Hua ^b  

^a SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

EPO; Hematocrit; Insulin resistance; Lipids; Red blood cell; TNF

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE; OXYGEN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33749530611     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2006.7.228     Document Type: Article

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