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Metabolic Defense Adaptations to Hypobaric Hypoxia in Man

P. W. Hochachka

10.1002/cphy.cp040248

Source: Supplement 14: Handbook of Physiology, Environmental Physiology

Originally published: 1996

Published online: January 2011

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Abstract

The sections in this article are:

1 Adaptation and its Interplay with Time
2 Hypoxia Adaptations in Muscle Metabolism
3 Adaptation of Output and of Regulation
4 Hypoxia Adaptations in Cardiac Metabolism
5 Hypoxia Adaptations in Brain Metabolism
6 Hypoxia Adaptation in Man: Toward Unraveling the Integrated Response
7 Evaluating Tissue‐Specific Metabolic Adaptations Against Hypoxia
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P. W. Hochachka. Metabolic Defense Adaptations to Hypobaric Hypoxia in Man. Compr Physiol 2011, Supplement 14: Handbook of Physiology, Environmental Physiology: 1115-1123. First published in print 1996. doi: 10.1002/cphy.cp040248