Altitude

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A likelihood analysis of experiments to test altitude decompression protocols for shuttle operations. 
  • Amino acid abundance and proteolytic potential in North American soils. 
  • Anti-hypotensive treatment and endothelin blockade synergistically antagonize exercise fatigue in rats under simulated high altitude. 
  • Can electronic sphygmomanometers be used for measurement of blood pressure at high altitudes? 
  • 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. 
  • Differences in time-related cardiopulmonary responses to hypoxia in three rat strains. 
  • 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. 
  • Effect of SB 217242 on hypoxia-induced cardiopulmonary changes in the high altitude-sensitive rat. 
  • Effect of maternal anemia at high altitude on infant hematocrit and oxygenation. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 Environmental Gradients 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). 
  • Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension among herdsmen living at 4,300 m in Tibet. 
  • 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. 
  • Relationship between daily exposure to biomass fuel smoke and blood pressure in high-altitude Peru. 
  • 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. 
  • Risk of decompression sickness during exposure to high cabin altitude after diving. 
  • Safety and Ergogenic Properties of Combined Aminophylline and Ambrisentan in Hypoxia. 
  • Spatial-temporal characteristics of haze and vertical distribution of aerosols over the Yangtze River Delta of China. 
  • Surviving Without Oxygen: How Low Can the Human Brain Go? 
  • Taking heart failure to new heights: its pathophysiology at simulated altitude. 
  • 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 altitude-induced hypoxia on regional myocardial blood flow. 
  • The in-vivo oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve at sea level and high altitude. 
  • UBC-Nepal Expedition: An experimental overview of the 2016 University of British Columbia Scientific Expedition to Nepal Himalaya. 
  • Validation of the Omron HEM-7201 upper arm blood pressure monitor, for self-measurement in a high-altitude environment, according to the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol revision 2010. 
  • 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