Cross-Adaptation: Heat and Cold Adaptation to Improve Physiological and Cellular Responses to Hypoxia.

ABSTRACT: To prepare for extremes of heat, cold or low partial pressures of oxygen (O₂), humans can undertake a period of acclimation or acclimatization to induce environment-specific adaptations, e.g. heat acclimation (HA), cold acclimation (CA), or altitude training. While these strategies are effective, they are not always feasible due to logistical impracticalities. Cross-adaptation is a term used to describe the phenomenon whereby alternative environmental interventions, e.g. HA or CA, may be a beneficial alternative to altitude interventions, providing physiological stress and inducing adaptations observable at altitude. HA can attenuate physiological strain at rest and during moderate-intensity exercise at altitude via adaptations allied to improved O₂ delivery to metabo

SUBMITTER: Gibson OR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5554481 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature