Brain natriuretic peptide at altitude: Relationship to diuresis, natriuresis, and mountain sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 108-111

  Feddersen, Berend ^a   Ausserer, Harald ^a,b   Haditsch, Bernd ^a,c   Frisch, Herwig ^a,d   Noachtar, Soheyl ^a   Straube, Andreas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Department of Neurology   (Italy)

^c Institute of Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Brain natriuretic peptide; High altitude; High altitude diuresis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIURESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MICTURITION; MOUNTAINEERING; NATRIURESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; URINE VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DIURESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURESIS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; URINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849124633     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2390.2009     Document Type: Article

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