Nervous system function during exercise in hypoxia

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-164

  Amann, Markus ^a,b   Kayser, Bengt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Brain; Muscle afferents; Neural drive; Performance

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; BREATHING; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CYCLING; EXERCISE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM;

ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OXYGEN; PULMONARY VENTILATION;

EID: 70349209133     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2008.1105     Document Type: Article

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