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Advancing high-altitude medicine: a model for the future [PDF]

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
With rising global high-altitude travel, occupational exposure, and permanent habitation, the health burden of high-altitude-specific diseases and high-altitude-related diseases has become increasingly prominent, highlighting an urgent need for in-depth ...
Wenjin Sun, Xuan Zhang, Ling Chen, Lei Chen, Cheng Deng, Shizheng Wu, Fengming Luo   +6 more
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Identification of risk factors for heavy clinical burden in electrical workers of highlands: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundAcute and chronic mountain sickness, resulting from maladaptation to high-altitude hypoxia, poses a great health concern. This study aimed to identify risk factors for heavy symptom-based clinical burden among high-altitude electrical workers ...
Qingqing Su, Qingqing Su, Qinghua He, Yonglin Fu, Qiang Lin, Haiying Xian, Tingting Liu, Miao Li, Hao Wang, Hao Wang, Wenjin Sun, Wenjin Sun, Xuan Zhang, Xuan Zhang, Ling Chen, Ling Chen, Hui Yan, Hui Yan, Lei Chen, Lei Chen, Fengming Luo, Fengming Luo   +21 more
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The mudflow dynamics of the river Gerkhozhan-Su in the section of the mudflow tray and mudslides protection of the city of Tyrnyauz (Central Caucasus) [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Based on the data of route inspection and video surveillance of the mudslides of the river Gerkhozhan-Su have been determined the features of the mudslides dynamics in the section of the mudflow tray.
Dokukin Mikhail, Bekkiev Mukhtar, Kalov Ruslan, Hadjiev Mukhtar   +3 more
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Altitude sickness and altitude adaptation [PDF]

Acta Physiologica, 2017
For as long as humanity can recall, it has probably been a dream of mankind to conquer mountainous heights and the mysterious deep. Loss of innocence is a common theme across ancient religions. Ancient Hindu legend has an interesting variation on the story: When Brahma realized that man did not deserve divinity, he decided to take it from them and hide
P B, Persson, A, Bondke Persson
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DL-3-n-butylphthalide improved physical and learning and memory performance of rodents exposed to acute and chronic hypobaric hypoxia

Military Medical Research, 2021
Background Studies have revealed the protective effect of DL-3-n-butylphthalide (NBP) against diseases associated with ischemic hypoxia. However, the role of NBP in animals with hypobaric hypoxia has not been elucidated.
Gang Xu, Yi-Kun Shi, Bin-Da Sun, Lu Liu, Guo-Ji E., Shu He, Jian-Yang Zhang, Bao Liu, Qiu Hu, Jian Chen, Yu-Qi Gao, Er-Long Zhang   +11 more
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Hypoxia exacerbates intestinal injury and inflammatory response mediated by myeloperoxidase during Salmonella Typhimurium infection in mice

Gut Pathogens, 2023
Background High-altitude exposure can cause oxidative stress damage in the intestine, which leads to increased intestinal permeability and bacterial translocation, resulting in local and systemic inflammation. Control of infection is critically dependent
Qinfang Zhu, Ying Han, Xiaozhou Wang, Ruhan Jia, Jingxuan Zhang, Meiheng Liu, Wei Zhang   +6 more
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Morphometric, haematological and physio-biochemical characterization of Bactrian (Camelus bactrianus) camel at high altitude

BMC Veterinary Research, 2020
Background Biochemical and haematological parameters have not been determined in Bactrian camels kept at high altitude. Therefore, this study was undertaken to characterise different physiological, haematological, biochemical, and morphometric parameters
Dolker Lamo, Geeta Gahlawat, Sunil Kumar, Vijay K. Bharti, Puneet Ranjan, Deepak Kumar, Om Prakash Chaurasia   +6 more
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The Altitudes of a Triangle

The American Mathematical Monthly, 2023
A long-standing, unanswered question regarding Euclid's Elements concerns the absence of a theorem for the concurrence of the altitudes of a triangle, and the possible reasons for this omission. In the centuries following Euclid, a remarkable number of proofs have been put forward; this suggests a search for the most elementary and direct proof.
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Inflammation and immunity in the pathogenesis of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
Hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPH) is a complicated vascular disorder characterized by diverse mechanisms that lead to elevated blood pressure in pulmonary circulation.
Yi Ye, Yi Ye, Yi Ye, Yi Ye, Qiying Xu, Qiying Xu, Qiying Xu, Qiying Xu, Tana Wuren, Tana Wuren, Tana Wuren, Tana Wuren   +11 more
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Excessive gas exchange impairment during exercise in a subject with a history of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and high altitude pulmonary edema [PDF]

, 2007
A 27-year-old male subject (V(O2 max)), 92% predicted) with a history of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and a clinically documented case of high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) was examined at rest and during exercise.
Lovering, AT, Haverkamp, HC, Hokanson, JS, Eldridge, MW, Andrew T. Lovering, Lee M. Romer, John S. Hokanson, Romer, LM, Marlowe W. Eldridge, Hans C. Haverkamp   +9 more
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