Table of Contents: High altitude and man/

Corporate Authors:	American Physiological Society, American Physiological Society (1887)-, American Physiological Society (1887-)
Other Authors:	West, John B., Lahiri, Sukhamay, West, John Burnard
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bethesda, Md.: Baltimore: American Physiological Society ; Distributed by Williams & Wilkins Co., 1984
Subjects:	Altitude, Influence of Human beings > Effect of environment on Adaptation (Physiology) Altitudes > Congresses Acclimatization > Congresses Υψόμετρο, Επίδραση του Άνθρωπος > Επίδραση περιβάλλοντος Προσαρμογή (Φυσιολογία)

Table of Contents:

Introduction: American Medical Research Expedition to Everest
Man at extreme altitude
1. Man on the summit of Mount Everest
2. Hypoxic ventilatory response and exercise ventilation at sea level and high altitude
3. Human cerebral function at extreme altitude
4. Metabolic and endocrine changes at altitude
5. Renin-aldosterone system
6. Red cell function at extreme altitude
Sleep and respiration at high altitude
7. Sleep and periodic breathing at high altitude: sherpa natives versus sojourners
8. Ventilatory control during sleep in normal humans
9. Hypoxia and brain blood flow
10. Hypoxic versus hypocapnic effects on periodic breathing during sleep
11. Mechanisms for recurrent apneas at altitude
12. Effects of acclimatization on sleep hypoxemia at altitude
Psysiology of permanent residents of high altitude
13. Respiratory control in Andean and Himalayan high-altitude natives
14. High-altitude polycythemia
15. Ventilation function in adaptation to high altitude: studies in Tibet
16. Ventilation in human populations native to high altitude
Index