Multifaceted clinical effects of acetazolamide: Will the underlying mechanisms please stand up?

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 713-714

  Teppema, Luc J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE;

EID: 84901189274     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00141.2014     Document Type: Editorial

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