What role does the blood brain barrier play in acute mountain sickness?

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-262

  Baneke, Alex ^a,b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altitude; High altitude cerebral oedema (HACE); Hypoxia; Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECTROSCOPY; STROKE PATIENT;

EID: 78049293237     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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