Effect of intermittent hypoxia on the reproduction of rats exposed to high altitude in the Chilean Altiplano

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 357-363

  Cikutovic, Marcos ^a   Fuentes, Nelson ^a   Bustos Obregón, Eduardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

High altitude; Intermittent hypoxia; Newborn puppies; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOSPERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TESTIS INJURY;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CHILE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SPERM COUNT; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 77049098873     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1035     Document Type: Article

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