Structural modifications of the brain in acclimatization to high-altitude

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Jiaxing ^a,b   Yan, Xiaodan ^c   Shi, Jinfu ^a   Gong, Qiyong ^d   Weng, Xuchu ^a   Liu, Yijun ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANTERIOR EXTERNAL CAPSULE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CHINA; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; INSULA; LINGUAL CORTEX; MALE; NERVE TRACT; POSTERIOR CINGULUM; PRECENTRAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUPERIOR CORONA RADIATA; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ALTITUDE; ANISOTROPY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

RADIATA;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANISOTROPY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955395010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011449     Document Type: Article

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