Exhaled nitric oxide is associated with acute mountain sickness susceptibility during exposure to normobaric hypoxia

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-44

  MacInnis, M J ^a   Carter, E A ^a   Koehle, M S ^a   Rupert, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acclimatization, FENO; Altitude illness; Environmental; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EXHALATION; HUMANS; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE;

EID: 83555178447     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: 18781519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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