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Several studies (5,6) tend to demonstrate that hypoxic conditions enhance the release of growth hormone (GH). However, results obtained in highlanders in Peru suggest that stimulation of GH release during exercise is not increased by altitude hypoxia (4). The present study was designed to define more accurately the time course of plasma GH concentration and that of other metabolites related to muscular exercise and to compare them in lowlanders at sea level, in subjects fully adapted to altitude hypoxia, and in lowlanders acutely exposed to hypoxia either by breathing a low pressure O2 gas mixture or by a process of acclimatization after translocation to high altitude.
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Raynaud, J., Drouet, L., Coudert, J., Durand, J. (1982). Time Course of Plasma Growth Hormone During Exercise in Man at Altitude. 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_24
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