Commentaries on viewpoint: Effect of altitude on leptin levels, does it go up or down? [3]

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1686-

  Raff, Hershel ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; LEPTIN; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; ANOREXIA; CALORIC INTAKE; COLD EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LETTER; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; BLOOD; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; LEPTIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57349200433     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.zdg-8233-vpcomm.2008     Document Type: Letter

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