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Hormonal Responses to Exercise at Altitude in Sea Level and Mountain Man

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High Altitude Physiology and Medicine

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Abstract

Physical exercise results in an increased plasma concentration of catecholamines (3,21), glucagon (1), Cortisol (17), and growth hormone (18,23). With submaximal exercise, there is often no increase in growth hormone during exercise (13), but when the same subjects were studied under conditions of acute hypoxic exercise, a marked elevation in growth hormone secretion was found (14).

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  1. John R. Sutton
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  1. Institute for Surgical Research of the LM-University, Klinkum Grosshadern, D-8000, Munich 70, Federal Republic of Germany

    Walter Brendel M.D.

  2. Documentation Center for High Altitude Medicine, Klinkum Grosshadern, D-8000, Munich 19, Federal Republic of Germany

    Roman A. Zink M.D.

  3. Urological Clinic of the LM-University, Klinkum Grosshadern, D-8000, Munich 70, Federal Republic of Germany

    Roman A. Zink M.D.

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Sutton, J.R., Garmendia, F. (1982). Hormonal Responses to Exercise at Altitude in Sea Level and Mountain Man. In: Brendel, W., Zink, R.A. (eds) High Altitude Physiology and Medicine. Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5639-7_23

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