Hypoxia and Exercise

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
A Tribute to John Burden West....Pages 1-6
Adventures in High-Altitude Physiology....Pages 7-16
Exercise Induced Arterial Hypoxemia: The role of Ventilation-Perfusion Inequality and Pulmonary Diffusion Limitation....Pages 17-30
Intrapulmonary Shunt During Normoxic and Hypoxic Exercise in Healthy Humans....Pages 31-45
Exercise-Induced Arterial Hypoxemia: Consequences For Locomotor Muscle Fatigue....Pages 47-55
Mechanisms of Sleep Apnea at Altitude....Pages 57-63
Control of Cerebral Blood Flow During Sleep and The Effects of Hypoxia....Pages 65-73
Neural Consequences of Sleep Disordered Breathing: The Role of Intermittent Hypoxia....Pages 75-88
Finding the Genes Underlying Adaptation to Hypoxia Using Genomic Scans for Genetic Adaptation and Admixture Mapping....Pages 89-100
An Evolutionary Model for Identifying Genetic Adaptation to High Altitude....Pages 101-118
Hypoxic Preconditioning and Erythropoietin Protect Retinal Neurons from Degeneration....Pages 119-131
Blocking Stress Signaling Pathways with Cell Permeable Peptides....Pages 133-143
JNK Pathway as Therapeutic Target to Prevent Degeneration in the Central Nervous System....Pages 145-155
Salvage Of Ischemic Myocardium: A Focus on JNK....Pages 157-164
Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species are Required for Hypoxic HIFα Stabilization....Pages 165-170
Hypoxia-Induced Gene Activity in Disused Oxidative Muscle....Pages 171-188
Role of the Red Blood Cell in Nitric Oxide Homeostasis and Hypoxic Vasodilation....Pages 189-205
Expression of the Heterotrimeric G Protein Gi and ATP Release are Impaired in Erythrocytes of Humans with Diabetes Mellitus....Pages 207-216
Red Blood Cells and Hemoglobin in Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction....Pages 217-231
Dose-Response of Altitude Training: How Much Altitude is Enough?....Pages 233-247
The Eye at Altitude....Pages 249-270
Lake Louise Consensus Methods for Measuring the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response....Pages 271-276
Pulmonary Hypertension in High-Altitude Dwellers: Novel Mechanisms, Unsuspected Predisposing Factors....Pages 277-291
Gene Hunting in Hypoxia and Exercise....Pages 293-309
Back Matter....Pages 311-353