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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Mechanisms underlying hypoxia tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster: hairy as a metabolic switch.

15 Oct 2008 Hypoxia-induced cell injury has been related to multiple pathological conditions. In order to render hypoxia-sensitive cells and tissues resistant to low O2 environment, in this current study, we used Drosophila melanogaster as a model to dissect ... Read more...

Global warming, elevational range shifts, and lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics.

8 Oct 2008 Many studies suggest that global warming is driving species ranges poleward and toward higher elevations at temperate latitudes, but evidence for range shifts is scarce for the tropics, where the shallow latitudinal temperature gradient makes ... Read more...

Impact of a century of climate change on small-mammal communities in Yosemite National Park, USA.

8 Oct 2008 We provide a century-scale view of small-mammal responses to global warming, without confounding effects of land-use change, by repeating Grinnell's early-20th century survey across a 3000-meter-elevation gradient that spans Yosemite National Park, ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Altitude'

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• Mechanisms underlying hypoxia tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster: hairy as a metabolic switch. 15 Oct 2008
• Ecology. Biodiversity in a warmer world. 8 Oct 2008
• Global warming, elevational range shifts, and lowland biotic attrition in the wet tropics. 8 Oct 2008
• Impact of a century of climate change on small-mammal communities in Yosemite National Park, USA. 8 Oct 2008
• The effect of short-term hypobaric hypoxic exposure on intraocular pressure. 29 Sep 2008
• Performance of cavopulmonary palliation at elevated altitude: midterm outcomes and risk factors for failure. 28 Sep 2008
• Evidence that parent-of-origin affects birth-weight reductions at high altitude. 30 Aug 2008
• Effect of rapid ascent to high altitude on autonomic cardiovascular modulation. 30 Aug 2008
• An assessment of intraocular pressure change in healthy subjects during air flight. 30 Aug 2008
• Schistosomiasis transmission at high altitude crater lakes in western Uganda. 9 Aug 2008
• Colloquium paper: microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity. 9 Aug 2008
• The generality of leaf size versus number trade-off in temperate woody species. 3 Aug 2008
• Mobile carbohydrates in Himalayan treeline trees I. Evidence for carbon gain limitation but not for growth limitation. 30 Jul 2008
• Variations in exhaled nitric oxide in children with asthma during a 1-week stay in a mountain village sanatorium. 30 Jul 2008
• Rhodobacter megalophilus sp. nov., a phototroph from the Indian Himalayas possessing a wide temperature range for growth. 30 Jul 2008
• Difference in tree growth responses to climate at the upper treeline: Qilian Juniper in the Anyemaqen Mountains. 30 Jul 2008
• Seasonal and tissue age influences on endophytic fungi of Pinus tabulaeformis (Pinaceae) in the Dongling Mountains, Beijing. 30 Jul 2008
• Fexofenadine effects on cognitive performance in aviators at ground level and simulated altitude. 30 Jul 2008
• Oxygen on Everest: the development of modern open-circuit systems for mountaineers. 30 Jul 2008
• Erythropoietin and HAPE. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Altitude'

Descriptor UI: D000531

Alternative terms: Altitude; Altitudes;

Related Mesh Headings: Mountaineering;

Tree Number: G16.500.275.058; N06.230.058;

Technical Notes: no qualif; consider also ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; /adv eff = probably ALTITUDE SICKNESS