Ascorbate, blood-brain barrier function and acute mountain sickness: A radical hypothesis [2]

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 231-233

  Bailey, Damian Miles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; GESTAGEN; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; THIOCTIC ACID;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; LETTER; MOUNTAINEERING; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 4544268994     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2004)15[234:ltte]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Letter

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