Selected contribution: High-altitude natives living at sea level acclimatize to high altitude like sea-level natives.

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Sea-level (SL) natives acclimatizing to high altitude (HA) increase their acute ventilatory response to hypoxia (AHVR), but HA natives have values for AHVR below those for SL natives at SL (blunting). HA natives who live at SL retain some blunting of AHVR and have more marked blunting to sustained (20-min) hypoxia. This study addressed the question of what happens when HA natives resident at SL return to HA: do they acclimatize like SL natives or revert to the characteristics of HA natives? F...

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Authors: Rivera-Ch, M; Gamboa, A; Léon-Velarde, F; Palacios, J; O'Connor, D

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
• Volume: 94
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 1263-1268
• Publication date: 2003-03-01
• DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00857.2002
• EISSN: 1522-1601
• ISSN: 8750-7587
• Language: English
• Keywords: Time Factors; Carbon Dioxide; Respiratory Function Tests; Adaptation, Physiological; Anoxia; Altitude; Middle Aged; Adult; Male; Respiratory Mechanics; Aged; Neuronal Plasticity; Female; Humans; Oxygen