Breathing and brain blood flow during sleep in patients with chronic mountain sickness

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 611-618

  Sun, Shinfu ^b   Oliver Pickett, Cheryl ^b   Ping, Yang ^b   Micco, Alexander J ^b   Droma, Tarshi ^b   Zamudio, Stacy ^b   Zhuang, Jianguo ^b   Huang, Shao Yung ^b   McCullough, Rosann G ^b   Cymerman, Allen ^b   Moore, Lorna G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

arterial oxygen saturation; China; Doppler flow velocity; high altitude; hypoxia; sleep disordered breathing; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; APNEA; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BREATHING PATTERN; CHINA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOVENTILATION; HYPOXEMIA; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 9544253904     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1996.81.2.611     Document Type: Article

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