Altitude

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Acid-base balance at high altitude in lowlanders and indigenous highlanders. 
  • Adaptive Transcriptome Profiling of Subterranean Zokor, Myospalax baileyi, to High- Altitude Stresses in Tibet. 
  • Amino acid abundance and proteolytic potential in North American soils. 
  • An examination of the association between altitude and suicide deaths, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation among veterans at both the patient and geospatial level. 
  • Anti-hypotensive treatment and endothelin blockade synergistically antagonize exercise fatigue in rats under simulated high altitude. 
  • Climate change, elevational range shifts, and bird extinctions. 
  • Comparison of altitude effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection between rural and urban communities in Peru. 
  • Constraints to species' elevational range shifts as climate changes. 
  • Control of breathing in Sherpas at low and high altitude. 
  • Decreased feeding associated with acute hypoxia in rats. 
  • Diffusion limitation in normal humans during exercise at sea level and simulated altitude. 
  • Does This Patient Have Acute Mountain Sickness?: The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review. 
  • Does a rise in plasma erythropoietin after high-altitude exposure affect FGF23 in healthy volunteers on a normal or low-phosphorus diet? 
  • Effect of maternal anemia at high altitude on infant hematocrit and oxygenation. 
  • Effectiveness of homocysteine lowering vitamins in prevention of thrombotic tendency at high altitude area: A randomized field trial. 
  • Elevational ranges of birds on a tropical montane gradient lag behind warming temperatures. 
  • End tidal-to-arterial CO2 and O2 gas gradients at low- and high-altitude during dynamic end-tidal forcing. 
  • Fatalities above 30,000 feet: characterizing pediatric deaths on commercial airline flights worldwide. 
  • Fexofenadine effects on cognitive performance in aviators at ground level and simulated altitude. 
  • GLOBAL REACH 2018: intra-arterial vitamin C improves endothelial-dependent vasodilatory function in humans at high altitude. 
  • Global REACH 2018: Characterizing Acid-Base Balance Over 21 Days at 4,300 m in Lowlanders. 
  • Global REACH 2018: High Blood Viscosity and Hemoglobin Concentration Contribute to Reduced Flow-Mediated Dilation in High-Altitude Excessive Erythrocytosis. 
  • High altitude: a hypercoagulable state: results of a prospective cohort study. 
  • Hyperbaric oxygen for decompression sickness. 
  • Hyperbaric treatment of air or gas embolism: current recommendations. 
  • Incidence of decompression sickness in hypoxia training with and without 30-min O2 prebreathe. 
  • Influence of high altitude on cerebral blood flow and fuel utilization during exercise and recovery. 
  • Influence of iron manipulation on hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and pulmonary reactivity during ascent and acclimatization to 5050 m. 
  • Intra- and interspecific tree growth across a long altitudinal gradient in the Peruvian Andes. 
  • Mammary implants, diving, and altitude exposure. 
  • Microbiome of the upper troposphere: species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications. 
  • Microgeographic patterns of genetic divergence and adaptation across natural environments in Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae) 
  • Natural positive selection and north-south genetic diversity in East Asia. 
  • Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes. 
  • Population differentiation and plasticity in vegetative ontogeny: effects on life-history expression in Erysimum capitatum (Brassicaceae). 
  • Populations Are Differentiated in Biological Rhythms without Explicit Elevational Clines in the Plant Mimulus laciniatus . 
  • Pulmonary gas exchange in humans exercising at sea level and simulated altitude. 
  • Regional cerebral blood flow in humans at high altitude: gradual ascent and 2 wk at 5,050 m. 
  • Regulation of cerebral blood flow by arterial PCO2 independent of metabolic acidosis at 5050 m. 
  • Respiration during flight in birds. 
  • Respiratory physiology of house sparrows in relation to high-altitude flight. 
  • Resting pulmonary haemodynamics and shunting: a comparison of sea-level inhabitants to high altitude Sherpas. 
  • Safety and Ergogenic Properties of Combined Aminophylline and Ambrisentan in Hypoxia. 
  • Surviving Without Oxygen: How Low Can the Human Brain Go? 
  • Taking heart failure to new heights: its pathophysiology at simulated altitude. 
  • The 2018 Global Research Expedition on Altitude Related Chronic Health (Global REACH) to Cerro de Pasco, Peru: an Experimental Overview. 
  • The acute hypoxic ventilatory response: testing the adaptive significance in human populations. 
  • The combination of theophylline and endothelin receptor antagonism improves exercise performance of rats under simulated high altitude. 
  • The contribution of arterial blood gases in cerebral blood flow regulation and fuel utilization in man at high altitude. 
  • The effect of seed-dispersal timing on seedling recruitment is modulated by environmental conditions that vary across altitude in a threatened palm. 
  • The in-vivo oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve at sea level and high altitude. 
  • The influence of hemoconcentration on hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in acute, prolonged, and lifelong hypoxemia. 
  • UBC-Nepal Expedition: An experimental overview of the 2016 University of British Columbia Scientific Expedition to Nepal Himalaya. 
  • UBC-Nepal Expedition: Haemoconcentration underlies the reductions in cerebral blood flow observed during acclimatization to high altitude. 
  • UBC-Nepal expedition: phenotypical evidence for evolutionary adaptation in the control of cerebral blood flow and oxygen delivery at high altitude. 
  • Ventilation-perfusion inequality in normal humans during exercise at sea level and simulated altitude. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Moon, Richard Edward, Professor of Anesthesiology, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Palmer, Gregory M., Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology