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Physiological Function in Special Environments

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Charles V. Paganelli

    1. Department of Physiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

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  2. Leon E. Farhi

    1. Department of Physiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Physiology of Adaptation to Altitude

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Structure and Function of Carotid Bodies at High Altitude

      • Sukhamay Lahiri
      Pages 3-14

    3. Where Does [H+] Fit in the Scheme of Ventilatory Acclimatization to Hypoxia?

      • Jerome A. Dempsey, Curtis A. Smith
      Pages 15-30

    4. Adventitial and Medial Proliferation of Lung Vessels in Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension: The Calf at High Altitude

      • K. R. Stenmark, J. Fasules, A. Tucker, J. T. Reeves
      Pages 31-40

    5. Muscle Function Impairment in Humans Acclimatized to Chronic Hypoxia

      • P. Cerretelli, P. E. di Prampero, H. Howald
      Pages 41-58

  3. Physiology of Diving and Exposure to Elevated Pressure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Resistance and Inertance When Breathing Dense Gas

      • Hugh D. Van Liew
      Pages 61-68

    3. Diffusive Gas Mixing in the Lungs: A Possible Factor Limiting Alveolar Gas Exchange at Depth

      • Y. Ohta, L. E. Farhi
      Pages 69-81

    4. Water Exchange in Hyperbaria

      • Suk Ki Hong, Charles V. Paganelli
      Pages 82-94

    5. On the Use of a Bubble Formation Model to Calculate Nitrogen and Helium Diving Tables

      • D. E. Yount, D. C. Hoffman
      Pages 95-108

    6. Arterial Oxygen Tensions and Hemoglobin Concentrations of the Free Diving Antarctic Weddell Seal

      • Warren M. Zapol, Roger D. Hill, Jesper Qvist, Konrad Falke, Robert C. Schneider, Graham C. Liggins et al.
      Pages 109-119

  4. Physiology of Exposure to Altered G-Force

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Human Physiological Limitations to G in High-Peformance Aircraft

      • R. R. Burton
      Pages 123-137

    3. Effects of Weightlessness on Human Fluid and Electrolyte Physiology

      • Carolyn S. Leach, Philip C. Johnson Jr.
      Pages 138-146
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The numerous ways in which man and animals are affected by their physical environment, and the inborn and adaptive responses to change in the "milieu exterieur" have fascinated curious minds since the earliest days of recorded history. Development of the scientific method with its emphasis on evidence obtained through experimentation-perhaps best illustrated in this field by Paul Bert's encyclopedic work-allowed several generations of our predecessors to establish firmly some facts and reject erroneous beliefs, but it was only during the early 1940s that environmental physiology put on its seven-league boots. In 1941, a young physiologist named Hermann Rahn was recruited by Wallace O. Fenn, then Chairman of the Department of Physiology at the University of Rochester, who was engaged in a study of the effects of altitude on human performance. The years that followed witnessed some of Hermann Rahn's early achievements not only in the area of altitude, but in other aspects of environmental physiology as well. In particular, he participated in the definitive studies of human adaptive mechanisms in arid climates which formed the basis of Edward Adolph's classic "Physi­ ology of Man in the Desert" (Wiley/Interscience, NY 1947). During those golden years, environmental physiology flourished, and important dis­ coveries were reported in a seemingly endless stream from many labora­ tories.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physiology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

    Charles V. Paganelli, Leon E. Farhi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Physiological Function in Special Environments

  • Editors: Charles V. Paganelli, Leon E. Farhi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3556-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8156-6

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3556-9

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 221

  • Topics: Zoology, Plant Sciences, Ecology, Cell Biology, Human Physiology, Sports Medicine

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