Operation everest II

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-119

  Wagner, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

pulmonary gas exchange; pulmonary vascular response; ventrical function

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN; VASCULOTROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMATOLOGY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID METABOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NUTRITION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; OXYGEN TENSION; PEER REVIEW; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SEA LEVEL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; ADAPTATION; ADULT; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLOOD; HEART RATE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954897316     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1084     Document Type: Article

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