Cold adaptations

Industrial Health

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 221-227

  Launay, Jean Claude ^a   Savourey, Gustave ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Acclimatization; Adaptation; Cold; Human

Indexed keywords

COLD; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; WORKER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COLD TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 68549105944     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.47.221     Document Type: Review

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