Studies on adaptation of man to high altitudes
By: By Edward Sigfrid Sundstroem.
Series: University of California publications in physiology.; v.5, no.5-12
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1919
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Subjects: Altitude, Influence of.; Human beings -- Effect of environment on.; Adaptation (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Cover-title.
"From the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University of California."
Table of contents: title: I. Effect of high altitudes on pulse, body temperature, blood pressure, respiration rate, output of urine and loss of energy in feces.; title: II. Effect of high altitudes on protein metabolism.; title: III. Effect of high altitudes on iron metabolism.; title: IV. Effect of high altitudes on the carbon dioxide content and on the hydrogen ion concentration of the blood.; title: V. Effect of high altitudes on salt metabolism with special reference to the mechanism of maintaining the acid-base equilibrium of the body.; title: VI. Effect of high altitudes on the number of erythrocytes.; title: VII. Effect of high altitudes on the size of erythrocytes.; title: VIII. Effect of high altitudes on the morphology of red and white blood corpuscles.