Exhaled nitric oxide and pulmonary artery pressures during graded ascent to high altitude

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-217

  Donnelly, J ^a   Cowan, D C ^b   Yeoman, D J ^b   Lucas, S J E ^a   Herbison, G P ^b   Thomas, K N ^a   Ainslie, P N ^a,c   Taylor, D R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hypobaria; Hypoxia; Hypoxic vasoconstriction; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY SYSTOLIC PRESSURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SEA LEVEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959193730     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: 18781519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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