Mitochondrial function at extreme high altitude

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 594, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1137-1149

  Murray, Andrew J ^a   Horscroft, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AEROBIC CAPACITY; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; CELL RESPIRATION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CELL RESPIRATION; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE;

EID: 84959301765     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP270079     Document Type: Review

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