Mechanisms of hemoglobin adaptation to high altitude hypoxia

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-157

  Storz, Jay F ^a   Moriyama, Hideaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Globins; Hemoglobin; Hypoxia; Molecular evolution; Physiological evolution

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN AFFINITY; OXYGEN DISSOCIATION CURVE; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; OXYGEN; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 46249085097     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2007.1079     Document Type: Review

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