Cardiovascular adjustments for life at high altitude

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 158, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 204-211

  Hainsworth, Roger ^a   Drinkhill, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altitude; Autonomic nervous system; Baroreceptors; Cardiac output; Chemoreceptors; Hypoxia; Mountain sickness; Polycythaemia; Vascular resistance

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EXERCISE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; OXYGEN; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

EID: 34548667496     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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