Xtreme Everest 2: Unlocking the secrets of the sherpa phenotype?

Extreme Physiology and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Martin, Daniel S ^a,b,c   Gilbert Kawai, Edward ^a,b,c   Levett, Denny Z H ^a,c,f   Mitchell, Kay ^a,c,d,e,f   Kumar BC, Rajendra ^g   Mythen, Michael G ^a,c   Grocott, Michael P W ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^g Nepal Health Research Council   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Altitude; Critical care; Epigenetics; Hypoxia; Intensive care; Microcirculation; Mitochondrion; Nitric Oxide; Oxygen; Sherpa

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; EPIGENETICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; MITOCHONDRION; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84930189083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20467648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-7648-2-30     Document Type: Article

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