Effect of hypoxic "dose" on physiological responses and sea-level performance

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1590-1599

  Wilber, Randall L ^a   Stray Gundersen, James ^b   Levine, Benjamin D ^c  

^a United States Olympic Committee   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Erythropoietin; Hypoxia inducible factor 1 ; Intermittent hypoxic training; Live high train low; Nitrogen dilution; Normobaric hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ATHLETE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SEA LEVEL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ERYTHROPOIESIS; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; MALE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RUNNING; SPORTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548439778     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e3180de49bd     Document Type: Conference Paper

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