Acute normobaric hyperoxia transiently attenuates plasma erythropoietin concentration in healthy males: Evidence against the 'normobaric oxygen paradox' theory

Acta Physiologica

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-98

  Keramidas, M E ^a   Kounalakis, S N ^b   Debevec, T ^a   Norman, B ^c   Gustafsson, T ^c   Eiken, O ^d   Mekjavic, I B ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b Hellenic Military University   (Greece)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; Erythropoiesis; Hyperoxaemia; Individual variability; Oxygen therapy

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEROXIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HUMANS; HYPEROXIA; MALE; OXYGEN; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953690490     PISSN: 17481708     EISSN: 17481716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02262.x     Document Type: Article

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