Cerebral blood flow at high altitude

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 133-140

  Ainslie, Philip N ^a   Subudhi, Andrew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PH; HEMATOCRIT; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANOXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BOLIVIA; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CHINA; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERU; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BOLIVIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; PERU; TIBET;

EID: 84903637736     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2013.1138     Document Type: Article

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