Hypoxia and Exercise (eBook)

Hypoxia Honoree.- A Tribute to John Burden West.- Adventures in High-Altitude Physiology.- Exercise-Induced Hypoxemia (EIH): Causes and Consequences.- Exercise Induced Arterial Hypoxemia: The role of Ventilation-Perfusion Inequality and Pulmonary Diffusion Limitation.- Intrapulmonary Shunt During Normoxic and Hypoxic Exercise in Healthy Humans.- Exercise-Induced Arterial Hypoxemia: Consequences For Locomotor Muscle Fatigue.- Causes and Effects of Sleep-Disordered Breathing.- Mechanisms of Sleep Apnea at Altitude.- Control of Cerebral Blood Flow During Sleep and The Effects of Hypoxia.- Neural Consequences of Sleep Disordered Breathing: The Role of Intermittent Hypoxia.- Genetics, Genomics and Adaptation to High Altitude.- Finding the Genes Underlying Adaptation to Hypoxia Using Genomic Scans for Genetic Adaptation and Admixture Mapping.- An Evolutionary Model for Identifying Genetic Adaptation to High Altitude.- Hypoxic Preconditioning and Erythropoietin Protect Retinal Neurons from Degeneration.- Blocking Stress Pathways with Cell-Permeable Membranes.- Blocking Stress Signaling Pathways with Cell Permeable Peptides.- JNK Pathway as Therapeutic Target to Prevent Degeneration in the Central Nervous System.- Salvage Of Ischemic Myocardium: A Focus on JNK.- The Impact of Immobilization and Hypoxia on Skeletal Muscle.- Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species are Required for Hypoxic HIF? Stabilization.- Hypoxia-Induced Gene Activity in Disused Oxidative Muscle.- Hypoxic Vasoregulation: Interactions of Red Cells, Endothelium and Smooth Muscle.- Role of the Red Blood Cell in Nitric Oxide Homeostasis and Hypoxic Vasodilation.- Expression of the Heterotrimeric G Protein Gi and ATP Release are Impaired in Erythrocytes of Humans with Diabetes Mellitus.- Red Blood Cells and Hemoglobin in Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction.- Hypoxia: State of the Art.- Dose-Response of Altitude Training: How Much Altitude is Enough?.- The Eye at Altitude.- Lake Louise Consensus Methods for Measuring the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response.- Future Directions in Hypoxia Research.- Pulmonary Hypertension in High-Altitude Dwellers: Novel Mechanisms, Unsuspected Predisposing Factors.- Gene Hunting in Hypoxia and Exercise.