Less is more: Blunted responses to hypoxia revealed in sea-level Tibetans

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 711-712

  Simonson, Tatum S ^a   Powell, Frank L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; EGLN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ENDOTHELIAL PAS DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR PROLINE DIOXYGENASE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR-PROLINE DIOXYGENASES; MALE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84901238217     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01110.2013     Document Type: Editorial

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