Brain blood flow in Andean and Himalayan high-altitude populations: Evidence of different traits for the same environmental constraint

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 706-714

  Jansen, Gerard F A ^a   Basnyat, Buddha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NEPAL INTERNATIONAL CLINIC   (Nepal)

Author keywords

adaptation; Andean; cerebral blood flow; high altitude; Himalayan

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; NEPAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ALTITUDE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BOLIVIA; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; ENVIRONMENT; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEPAL; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERU; POPULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79551646238     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2010.150     Document Type: Article

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