Intermittent hypobaric hypoxia exposure does not cause sustained alterations in autonomic control of blood pressure in young athletes

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Fu, Qi ^a   Townsend, Nathan E ^b   Shiller, S Michelle ^a,c   Martini, Emily R ^a   Okazaki, Kazunobu ^a   Shibata, Shigeki ^a   Truijens, Martin J ^d   Rodríguez, Ferran A ^a,e   Gore, Christopher J ^b   Stray Gundersen, James ^a   Levine, Benjamin D ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF SPORT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Arterial pressure; Autonomic nervous system; Baroreflexes; Cardiovascular variability; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOXIA; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RUNNING; SWIMMING; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 34248231701     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00622.2006     Document Type: Article

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