High altitude physiology: Lessons from Tibet

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8723, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wagner, Peter D ^a   Simonson, Tatum S ^a   Wei, Guan ^b   Wagner, Harrieth ^a   Wuren, Tanna ^b   Yan, Ma ^b   Qin, Ga ^b   Ge, Rili ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b QINGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Altitude; Evolution; Exercise; Hemoglobin; Oxygen transport; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; EVOLUTION; EXERCISE; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; TIBET;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HEART; HEMOGLOBIN; SEA LEVEL;

MUSCLE;

EID: 84881120454     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2020038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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