AltitudeOmics: Enhanced cerebrovascular reactivity and ventilatory response to CO2 with high-Altitude acclimatization and reexposure

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 911-918

  Fan, Jui Lin ^a,b   Subudhi, Andrew W ^c,d   Evero, Oghenero ^c   Bourdillon, Nicolas ^a   Kayser, Bengt ^a   Lovering, Andrew T ^e   Roach, Robert C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude acclimatization; Cerebral blood flow; Rebreathing

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACID BASE BALANCE; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CHEMORECEPTOR CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; LUNG; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHEMORECEPTOR CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPERCAPNIA; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PULMONARY VENTILATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899959577     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00704.2013     Document Type: Article

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