Hypoxia

by Roach, Robert C.; Wagner, Peter D.; Hackett, Peter H.; International Hypoxia Symposium 2003 (Banff, Alta.)

• ISBN13: 9780306480720
• ISBN10: 0306480727
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-31
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

The International Hypoxia Symposium convenes biannually to bring together international experts from many fields to explore the state of the art in normal and pathophysiological responses to hypoxia. Representatives from five continents and 32 countries joined together in February 2003 for four days in Banff, Alberta.

Table of Contents

HYPOXIA HONOREE
1. A Tribute to John Wendell Severinghaus	1	(6)
Thomas F. Hornbein
2. Fire-Air and Dephlogistication	7	(14)
John W. Severinghaus
HIBERNATION AND HYPOXIA
3. Mammalian Hibernation	21	(18)
Kenneth B. Storey
4. Oxygen Conformance of Cellular Respiration	39	(18)
Erich Gnaiger
NEW ADVANCES OXYGEN SENSING
5. Current Paradigms in Cellular Oxygen sensing	57	(16)
Paul T. Schumacker
6. Why Is Erythropoietin Made in the Kidney?	73	(16)
Sandra Donnelly
7. Hypoxia and High Altitude	89	(28)
Gisele Höpfl, Omolara Ogunshola, Max Gasmann
HYPOXIA: AN ESSENTIAL FOR A HEALTHY FETUS
8. Hypoxia and Lung Branching Morphogenesis	117	(10)
Sarah A. Gebb and Peter Lloyd Jones
9. Hypoxia and Rho/Rho-Kinase Signaling	127	(12)
Ivan F. McMurtry, Natalie R. Bauer, Karen A. Fagan, Tetsutaro Nagaoka, Sarah N. Gebb, and Masahiko Oka
10. Hypoxic Induction of Myocardial Vascularization During Development	139	(12)
Robert J. Tomanek, Donald D. Lund, and Xinping Yue
NEW ADVANCES: HIGH ALTITUDE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
11. Role of Cerebral Blood Volume in Acute Mountain sickness	151	(10)
C. Mathew Kinsey and Robert Roach
12. Ventilation, Autonomic Function, Sleep and Erythropoietin	161	(16)
Luciano Bernardi, Robert C. Roach, Cornelius Keyl, Luci Spicuzza, Claudio Passino, Maurizio Bonfichi, Alfredo Gamboa, Jorge Gamboa, Luca Malcovati, Annette Schneider, Nadia Casiraghi, Antonio Mori, Fabiola Leon-Velarde
13. Cardio-Pulmonary Interactions at High Altitude	177	(14)
Marco Maggiorini
OXIDATIVE STRESS AND MEMBRANE DAMAGE
14. Oxidative Stress and Aging	191	(10)
Wulf Dröge
15. Radical Dioxygen	201	(22)
Damian Miles Bailey
HYPOXIC REGULATION OF BLOOD FLOW IN HUMANS
16. Skeletal Muscle Circulation and the Role of Epinephrine	223	(14)
John R. Halliwill
17. c(-Adrenergic Receptors and Functional Sympatholysis in Skeletal Muscle	237	(12)
Frank A. Dinenno
18. Skin Blood Flow and Temperature Regulation	249	(14)
Christopher T. Minson
HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS IN THE LUNGS
19. Turning up the Heat in the Lungs	263	(14)
Claudio Sartori, and Urs Scherrer
20. Proteins Involved in Salvage of the Myocardium	277	(16)
Richard N.M. Cornelussen, Ward Y.R. Vanagt, Frits W. Prinzen, and Luc H.E.H. Snoeckx
FUTURE DIRECTIONS: HYPOXIA RESEARCH
21. The NO - K+ Channel Axis in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension	293	(30)
Evangelos D. Michelakis, M. Sean McMurtry, Brian Sonnenberg, and Stephen L. Archer
22. Non-Erythroid Functions of Erythropoietin	323	(8)
Max Gassmann, Katja Heinicke, Jorge Soliz, and Omolara O. Ogunshola
SPECIAL TRIBUTE
23. Peter Hochachka and Oxygen	331	(8)
Kenneth B. Storey
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ALTITUDE ILLNESS
24. Proposal for Scoring Severity in Chronic Mountain Sickness (CMS)	339	(16)
Fabiola León-Velarde, Rosavn G. McCullough, Robert E. McCullough, and John T. Reeves for the CMS Consensus Working Group
25. Epidemiological Modeling of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS)	355	(4)
Richard D. Vann, Neal W. Pollock, Carl F. Pieper, David R. Murdoch, Stephen R. Muza, Michael J. Natoli, and Luke Y Wang
LATE ABSTRACTS
26. Abstracts Submitted Late to 13th International Hypoxia Symposium	359	(6)
AUTHOR INDEX	365	(2)
SUBJECT INDEX	367