| Description |
1 online resource (495 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of O2 Sensing / Paul T. Schumacker -- Cellular and Molecular Defenses Against Hypoxia / Stilla Frede and Joachim Fandrey -- Control of Breathing / Luc J. Teppema and Remco R. Berendsen -- Lung Function and Gas Exchange / Andrew M. Luks and Susan R. Hopkins -- Pulmonary Circulation / Marco Maggiorini, Peter Bärtsch and Erik R. Swenson -- Cardiovascular System / Aaron L. Baggish, Eugene E. Wolfel and Benjamin D. Levine -- Cerebral Circulation and Brain / Philip N. Ainslie, Mark H. Wilson and Christopher H.E. Imray -- Autonomic Nervous System / Mark J. Drinkhill and Roger Hainsworth and Victoria E. Claydon -- Skeletal Muscle Tissue Changes with Hypoxia / Hans Hoppeler, Matthias Mueller and Michael Vogt -- Blood and Haemostasis / Peter Bärtsch and Jim S. Milledge -- Renal Function and Fluid Homeostasis / Erik R. Swenson and Niels V. Olsen -- Endocrine Function / Jean-Paul Richalet -- Gastrointestinal Function / Noor Hamad and Simon Travis -- Immune System / Robert S. Mazzeo and Erik R. Swenson -- Nutrition and Metabolism / George A. Brooks -- Exercise / Carsten Lundby -- Sleep / Yvonne Nussbaumer-Ochsner and Konrad E. Bloch -- Reproduction and Growth / Susan Niermeyer -- Human Evolution at High Altitude / Cynthia M. Beall -- Acute Mountain Sickness and High Altitude Cerebral Oedema / Peter Bärtsch and Damian Miles Bailey -- High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) / Robert B. Schoene and Erik R. Swenson -- Chronic Mountain Sickness / Fabiola León-Velarde, María Rivera-Ch, Luis Huicho and Francisco C. Villafuerte -- High Altitude and Common Medical Conditions / Andrew M. Luks and Peter H. Hackett |
|
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of O2 Sensing -- Cellular and Molecular Defenses Against Hypoxia -- Control of Breathing -- Lung Function and Gas Exchange -- Pulmonary Circulation -- Cardiovascular System -- Cerebral Circulation and Brain -- Autonomic Nervous System -- Skeletal Muscle Tissue Changes with Hypoxia -- Blood and Haemostasis -- Renal Function and Fluid Homeostasis -- Endocrine Function -- Gastrointestinal Function -- Immune System -- Nutrition and Metabolism -- Exercise -- Sleep -- Reproduction and Growth -- Human Evolution at High Altitude -- Acute Mountain Sickness and High Altitude Cerebral Oedema -- High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) -- Chronic Mountain Sickness -- High Altitude and Common Medical Conditions |
| Summary |
Over the last decade the science and medicine of high altitude and hypoxia adaptation has seen great advances. High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxiaaddresses the challenges in dealing with the changes in human physiology and the particular medical conditions that arise from exposure to high altitude. In-depth and comprehensive chapters cover both the basic science and the clinical consequences of exposure to high altitude. Genetic, cellular, organ and whole body systemresponses to high altitudes are covered and chapters discuss these effects on a wide range of diseases. Expert authors provide insight into the care of patients with pre-existing medical conditions that fail in some cases to adapt as well as offer insights into how high altitude research can help critically ill patients. High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia is an important new volume that offers a window into greater understanding and more successful treatment of hypoxic human diseases |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013) |
| Subject |
Adaptation (Physiology)
|
|
Altitude, Influence of.
|
|
Anoxemia.
|
|
Altitudes.
|
|
Adaptation, Physiological
|
|
Altitude
|
|
Hypoxia
|
|
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
|
|
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
|
|
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
|
|
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
|
|
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
|
|
Médecine.
|
|
Altitudes
|
|
Adaptation (Physiology)
|
|
Altitude, Influence of
|
|
Anoxemia
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Bärtsch, Peter, 1946- editor.
|
|
Swenson, Erik R., editor.
|
| ISBN |
9781461487722 |
|
1461487722 |
|
1461487714 |
|
9781461487715 |
|
