Hypoxia, almitrine, and peripheral neuropathy.
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Hypoxia, almitrine, and peripheral neuropathy.
The chronic hypoxia seen at high altitude or induced experimentally by environmental changes has several physiological and pathological consequences. The carotid body, the principal sensor of blood oxygen tension, enlarges' and contains increased amounts of dopamine and noradrenaline.2 The hypoxic drive to ventilation diminishes.3 In the lung there is constriction of pulmonary arterioles in ass...
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1 Van Ballegooie E, Hooymans JMH, Timmerman Z, et al. Rapid deterioration of retinopathy during treatment with continuous subcutaneous infusion. Diabetes Care 1984;7:236-42. 2 Lorenzi M, Goldbaum MH, Spencer EM, Cheney C. Improved diabetic control and retinopathy. New EnglJ Med 1983;308:1600. 3 Kohner EM, Hamilton AM, Saunders S, Sutcliffe BA, Bulpitt J. The retinal blood flow in diabetes. Diab...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.44.4.247