James S MilledgeJohn B. WestSusan R. HopkinsAndrew T. Lovering and Michael K. Stickland and Marlowe W. EldridgeLee M. Romer and Jerome A. Dempsey and Andrew Lovering and Marlowe EldridgeWilliam WhitelawDouglas R. Corfield and Guy E. MeadowsMary J Morrell and Gillian TwiggMark D. Shriver and Rui Mei and Abigail Bigham and Xianyun Mao and Tom D. Brutsaert and Esteban J. Parra and Lorna G. MooreLorna G. Moore and Mark Shriver and Lynne Bemis and Enrique VargasChristian Grimm and A. Wenzel and N. Acar and S. Keller and M. Seeliger and Max GassmannChristophe BonnyMariaelena Repici and Tiziana BorselloHerve DuplainM. Celeste SimonChristoph Dapp and Max Gassmann and Hans Hoppeler and Martin FluckMark T. GladwinRandy Sprague and Alan Stephenson and Elizabeth Bowles and Madelyn Stumpf and Gregory Ricketts and Andrew LonigroSteven DeemBenjamin D. Levine and James Stray-GundersenDaniel S Morris and John Somner and Michael J Donald and Ian JC McCormick and Rupert RA Bourne and Suber S Huang and Peter Aspinall and Baljean DhillonFrank L. PowellUrs Scherrer and Pierre Turini and Sebastien Thalmann and Damian Hutter and Carlos Salinas Salmon and Thomas Stuber and Sidney Shaw and Pierre-Yves Jayet and Celine Sartori-Cucchia and Mercedes Villena and Yves Allemann and Claudio SartoriKenneth B. Storey

Hypoxia Honoree
1 A Tribute To John Burnard West	p. 1
2 Adventures In High-Altitude Physiology	p. 7
Exercise-Induced Hypoxemia (EIH): Causes and Consequences
3 Exercise Induced Arterial Hypoxemia: The Role Of Ventilation-Perfusion Inequality And Pulmonary Diffusion Limitation	p. 17
4 Intrapulmonary Shunt During Normoxic And Hypoxic Exercise In Healthy Humans	p. 31
5 Exercise-Induced Arterial Hypoxemia: Consequences For Locomotor Muscle Fatigue	p. 47
Causes and Effects of Sleep-Disordered Breathing
6 Mechanisms Of Sleep Apnea At Altitude	p. 57
7 Control Of Cerebral Blood Flow During Sleep And The Effects Of Hypoxia	p. 65
8 Neural Consequences Of Sleep Disordered Breathing: The Role Of Intermittent Hypoxia	p. 75
Genetics, Genomics and Adaptation to High Altitude
9 Finding The Genes Underlying Adaptation To Hypoxia Using Genomic Scans For Genetic Adaptation And Admixture Mapping	p. 89
10 An Evolutionary Model For Identifying Genetic Adaptation To High Altitude	p. 101
11 Hypoxic Preconditioning And Erythropoietin Protect Retinal Neurons From Degeneration	p. 119
Blocking Stress Pathways with Cell-Permeable Membranes
12 Blocking Stress Signaling Pathways With Cell Permeable Peptides	p. 133
13 Jnk Pathway As Therapeutic Target To Prevent Degeneration In The Central Nervous System	p. 145
14 Salvage Of Ischemic Myocardium: A Focus On Jnk	p. 157
The Impact of Immobilization and Hypoxia on Skeletal Muscle
15 Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Are Required For Hypoxic Hif[alpha] Stabilization	p. 165
16 Hypoxia-Induced Gene Activity In Disused Oxidative Muscle	p. 171
Hypoxic Vasoregulation: Interactions of Red Cells, Endothelium and Smooth Muscle
17 Role Of The Red Blood Cell In Nitric Oxide Homeostasis And Hypoxic Vasodilation	p. 189
18 Expression Of The Heterotrimeric G Protein Gi And Atp Release Are Impaired In Erythrocytes Of Humans With Diabetes Mellitus	p. 207
19 Red Blood Cells And Hemoglobin In Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction	p. 217
Hypoxia: State of the Art
20 Dose-Response Of Altitude Training: How Much Altitude Is Enough?	p. 233
21 The Eye At Altitude	p. 249
22 Lake Louise Consensus Methods For Measuring The Hypoxic Ventilatory Response	p. 271
Future Directions in Hypoxia Research
23 Pulmonary Hypertension In High-Altitude Dwellers: Novel Mechanisms, Unsuspected Predisposing Factors	p. 277
24 Gene Hunting In Hypoxia And Exercise	p. 293
Late Abstracts	p. 311
Author Index	p. 347
Subject Index	p. 351