'Cross-adaptation': Habituation to short repeated cold-water immersions affects the response to acute hypoxia in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3605-3613

  Lunt, Heather C ^a   Barwood, Martin J ^a   Corbett, Jo ^a   Tipton, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; COLD EXPOSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE; HABITUATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENOUS BLOOD; WATER IMMERSION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANOXIA; COLD TEMPERATURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MALE; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77956744374     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.193458     Document Type: Article

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