Optimal hematocrit: A Procrustean bed for maximum oxygen transport rate?

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 353-354

  Pasipoularides, Ares ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84864624810     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00654.2012     Document Type: Editorial

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