Operation everest III: COMEX '97

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-132

  Richalet, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

acclimatization; acute mountain sickness; cognitive function; hypobaria

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE LIPID; OXYGEN; PLASMA SUBSTITUTE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANALYZER; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PH; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CAPILLARY BLOOD; COGNITION; COLD; CONVALESCENCE; DECOMPRESSION; DECREASED APPETITE; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERYTHROPOIESIS; EUROPE; FIELD STUDY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MONITORING; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; OXYGEN TENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOXYGENATION; SAFETY; SIMULATION; TRAVEL; ADAPTATION; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HISTORY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BODY COMPOSITION; COGNITION; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; REFERENCE VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954918671     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1099     Document Type: Article

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