Total hemoglobin mass and blood volume of Elite Kenyan runners

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 791-797

  Prommer, Nicole ^a   Thoma, Stefanie ^b   Quecke, Lennart ^a   Gutekunst, Thomas ^a   Völzke, Christian ^a   Wachsmuth, Nadine ^a   Niess, Andreas Michael ^b   Schmidt, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation to normoxia; Altitude; Erythropoietin; Oxygen transport; Plasma volume; V O 2max

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDURANCE; ETHNOLOGY; GERMANY; HUMAN; KENYA; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ATHLETES; BLOOD VOLUME; BODY MASS INDEX; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GERMANY; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING;

EID: 78650453757     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181badd67     Document Type: Article

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