Papers and Websites about 'altitude'
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Stray-Gundersen, James, Robert F. Chapman, and Benjamin D. Levine. ³Living high-training low² altitude training improves sea level performance in male and female elite runners. J Appl Physiol 91: 11131120, 2001. [pdf-file] |
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Moore, Lorna G. Human genetic adaptation to high altitude. High Alt Med Biol 2:257279, 2001. [pdf-file] |
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Ashenden, Michael J., Christopher J. Gore, David T. Martin, Georey P. Dobson, Allan G. Hahn. Effects of a 12-day ``live high, train low'' camp on reticulocyte production and haemoglobin mass in elite female road cyclists Eur J Appl Physiol (1999) 80: 472±478 [pdf-file] |
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Ashenden, Michael J., Christopher J. Gore, Geo*rey P. Dobson, Allan G. Hahn. ``Live high, train low'' does not change the total haemoglobin mass of male endurance athletes sleeping at a simulated altitude of 3000 m for 23 nights Eur J Appl Physiol (1999) 80: 479±484 [pdf-file]. |
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Gerard, Andre B. , Michele K. Mcelroy, Michael J. Taylor, Igor Grant, Frank L. Powell, Sebastiaan Holverda, Nicole Sentse, And John B. West. Six Percent Oxygen Enrichment Of Room Air At Simulated 5000 M Altitude Improves Neuropsychological Function. High Altitude Medicine & Biology Volume 1, Number 1, 2000, 51-61 [pdf-file]. |
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Hahn, Allan G. ,Christopher J. Gore, David T. Martin , Michael J. Ashenden, Alan D. Roberts, Peter A. Logan. An evaluation of the concept of living at moderate altitude and training at sea level. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 128 2001 777-789. [pdf-file] |
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Weston, A. R., G. Mackenzie, M. A. Tufts, And M. Mars. Optimal time of arrival for performance at moderate altitude (1700 m). Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 33, No. 2, 2001, pp. 298-302. [pdf-file]. |
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Curtis, R. Director, Outdoor Action Guide to High Altitude: Acclimatization and Illnesses. 1995. Outdoor Action Program, Princeton University. [pdf-file] |
High Altitude Medicine And Biology (JOURNAL)
Journal dedicated tho the physiology and biology of high altitude.
See http://www.catchword.com/titles/15270297.htm
Information on Hypobaric Chambers
Go2altitude is a manufacturer of hypobaric chambers. See: http://www.go2altitude.com
Medicine
An overview of high altitude medicine can be found at http://www.high-altitude-medicine.com
Bibliography of High Altitude Medicine and Physiology
This list of 6100 references was compiled by Robert Roach, Charles Houston, Peter Hackett, and J.-P. Richalet. It includes many more articles from the Hypoxia Symposia than PubMed and these contain much interesting information, although they are not peer-reviewed. A CD version is also available for sale from rroach@hypoxia.net. The web version was placed by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
See http://annie.cv.nrao.edu/habibqbe.htm
Archival Collection in High Altitude Medicine and Physiology
This is a collection of primary materials (letters, diaries, laboratory notebooks, manuscripts, etc.) from well-known people in the field. Major collections include extensive material from the German-American physiologist Ulrich C. Luft, and the British physiologist L.G.C.E. Pugh, with smaller collections from UIAA Mountain Medicine Centre The archive is housed in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California San Diego. The library can be accessed from http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/
The High Altitude Medicine and Physiology Archive is at http://roger.ucsd.edu/search/t?SEARCH=high-altitude+medicine+and+physiology+collection
Division of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego has it's own website at http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/phys/divphys.html
HIGH ALTITUDE LABORATORIES AND SITES
Pyramid Laboratory, 5050 m
This is the highest permanently manned laboratory in the world. It has sophisticated facilities and a spectacular setting one day's walk from the Everest Base Camp in Nepal. See http://www.mountnet.net/evk2/
Capanna Margherita, 4559 m
This is a classical laboratory on the Punta Gnifetti of the Monte Rosa in Italy, which dates back to the 1890s but is still extensively used. See http://www.easytec.net/Pangea/Alpi/CapannaMargherita/capannamargherita.htm
Observatoire Vallot, 4350 m
This laboratory on Mont Blanc, France also had its origin in the 1890s. See http://worldserver.oleane.com/ensa.med/index.htm
Instituto de Investigaciones de la Altura, Cerro de Pasco, 4340 m
This laboratory is in a Peruvian mining town and is run by the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. See http://www.upch.edu.pe/upch/rector/segen/publicaciones/boletin/boletin16/bol16pag09.htm
White Mountain Research Station, 4343, 3800, and 3094 m
This is situated in California and has three sites with laboratory facilities of varying degrees of sophistication. It is operated by the University of California. See http://www.wmrs.edu
Interlaken.
See http://obswww.unige.ch/nicolet/joch/schema.html
Laboratorio Fisica Cosmica Chacaltaya, 5200 m
This was not designed for life science research, but can be used by arrangement. It is 30 km by road from La Paz, Bolivia. There is no web site as yet.
Chajnantor Site, North Chile, 5050 m
This high plateau is easily reached by a road from San Pedro de Atacama, and is the site of several current or planned telescopes, including the huge multinational Atacama Large Millimeter Array. The web site includes photographs of the site and links to high altitude life science studies in preparation for operation of the telescopes.
See http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/mma/sites/ and http://phobos.caltech.edu/%7Etjp/CBI/.
Historical Expeditions
Mallory & Irvine Mystery Expedition...Did they climb the Everest in their 1924 expedition??
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/mystery/index.html
