Caudwell xtreme everest expedition

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-137

  Grocott, Michael P W ^a   Martin, Daniel S ^a   Wilson, Mark H ^a   Mitchell, Kay ^a   Dhillon, Sundeep ^a   Mythen, Monty G ^a   Montgomery, Hugh E ^a   Levett, Denny Z H ^a  

^a Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; EXERCISE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MEASUREMENT; METABOLITE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEPAL; ORGAN INJURY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUPILLOMETRY; SEA LEVEL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAVEL; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BREATHING MECHANICS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG ALVEOLUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EXPEDITIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 77954919619     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1093     Document Type: Article

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