Hypoxia

Into the Next Millennium

456 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Hypoxia is a constant threat throughout life. International experts from many different fields, including clinicians, clinical researchers, and basic scientists, have contributed to this volume, presenting state-of-the-art information regarding normal and abnormal (pathophysiological) responses to hypoxia. The topics covered include visitors to high altitude, the latest developments on high-altitude cerebral and pulmonary edema, the brain in hypoxia, high-altitude headache, and similarities between ischemic and hypoxic injury to the brain. In addition topics are covered such as blood-brain barrier in hypoxia, hypoxia interactions with vascular growth, and how humans adjust to extreme hypoxia.

• Reihe: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
• Themen: Medizin Vorklinische Medizin, Grundlagenwissenschaften Anatomie
• ISBN: 9781461371342
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.11.2012
• Größe: 25.4 x 17.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer US
• Herausgegeben von: Robert C. Roach, Peter D. Wagner, Peter H. Hackett