Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 101-110

  Swenson, Erik R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; ENDOTHELIN B RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYHEMOGLOBIN; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; DENERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOXIC LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG INNERVATION; LUNG PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; LUNG VOLUME; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; OXYGEN BREATHING; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; PULMONARY ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84879628014     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2013.1010     Document Type: Article

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