Blood rheology adjustments in rats after a program of intermittent exposure to hypobaric hypoxia

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-281

  Esteva, Santiago ^a   Panisello, Pere ^a   Torrella, Joan Ramon ^a   Pagés, Teresa ^a   Viscor, Ginés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blood rheological behavior; Blood viscosity; Hypobaric chamber; Intermittent hypoxia; Red blood cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VISCOSITY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 70349478625     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2008.1086     Document Type: Article

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