ea0021p241 | Pituitary | SFEBES2009
Sachidhanandam Meenakshi
, Nath Singh Som
, Kumar Salhan Ashok
, Sankar Ray Uday
Background and objective: Adaptive process to hypoxia of altitude involves changes in the homeostatic steady state of several endocrine variables which precede and contribute- to many physiologic adaptations. Physiologic responses to altitude-stress exhibit ethnic variation. However, there has been limited characterization of ‘ethnicity effect’ on endocrine responses to high-altitude stress. This is true for enzyme-immunoassay method (EIA) of plasma hormone analysis....