Features of the capillarization of the skeletal muscles of the white rat during adaptation to high altitude in the Pamir Mountains and the Antarctic
Belkin, V.Sh; Astakhov, O.B.
Kosmicheskaia Biologiia i Aviakosmicheskaia Meditsina 20(2): 65-69
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0321-5040 PMID: 3702313 Document Number: 281053
The capillary-myofiber quantitative relations were examined morphometrically in 180 white male rats exposed for 1.5 month to altitudes of 3488-4000 m above sea level (Antarctic and Pamir highlands). During the first three weeks of adaptation drastic changes in the parameter were seen. It is suggested that one of the factors responsible for them is a shift in the functional status of muscles produced by the method of transportation of the animals to the high altitude environment.