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Xtreme Everest 2: unlocking the secrets of the Sherpa phenotype?

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Title
Xtreme Everest 2: unlocking the secrets of the Sherpa phenotype?
Published in
Extreme Physiology & Medicine, October 2013
DOI 10.1186/2046-7648-2-30
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Authors

Daniel S Martin, Edward Gilbert-Kawai, Denny ZH Levett, Kay Mitchell, Rajendra Kumar BC, Michael G Mythen, Michael PW Grocott

Abstract

Xtreme Everest 2 (XE2) was part of an ongoing programme of field, laboratory and clinical research focused on human responses to hypoxaemia that was conducted by the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Hypoxia Research Consortium. The aim of XE2 was to characterise acclimatisation to environmental hypoxia during a standardised ascent to high altitude in order to identify biomarkers of adaptation and maladaptation. Ultimately, this may lead to novel diagnostic and treatment strategies for the pathophysiological hypoxaemia and cellular hypoxia observed in critically ill patients. XE2 was unique in comparing participants drawn from two distinct populations: native ancestral high-altitude dwellers (Sherpas) and native lowlanders. Experiments to study the microcirculation, mitochondrial function and the effect that nitric oxide metabolism may exert upon them were focal to the scientific profile. In addition, the genetic and epigenetic (methylation and histone modification) basis of observed differences in phenotype was explored. The biological samples and phenotypic metadata already collected during XE2 will be analysed as an independent study. Data generated will also contribute to (and be compared with) the bioresource obtained from our previous observational high-altitude study, Caudwell Xtreme Everest (2007).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
United States 1 2%
Unknown 44 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 7 15%
Researcher 7 15%
Student > Bachelor 7 15%
Student > Master 7 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Other 8 17%
Unknown 5 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 50%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 9%
Neuroscience 3 7%
Sports and Recreations 3 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 7 15%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 November 2015.
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#12,887,556
of 22,731,677 outputs
Outputs from Extreme Physiology & Medicine
#64
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#106,699
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Outputs of similar age from Extreme Physiology & Medicine
#4
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