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  Acclimatization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is a common misconception that acclimatization and acclimation are synonymous.
This may be a discrete occurrence or may instead represent part of a periodic cycle, such as a mammal shedding heavy winter fur in favour of a lighter summer coat.
Where acclimitization occurs naturally, in the field of physiology acclimation is used to describe the process of an organism being forced to adjust to changes in their environment by artificial means, such as in a laboratory setting (Schmidt-Neilsen 1990).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acclimatization   (435 words)

  
 ACCLIMATIZATION - LoveToKnow Article on ACCLIMATIZATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the case of the latter class, however, acclimatization is a necessary preliminary to naturalization, and in many cases to useful domestication, and we have therefore to inquire whether it is possible.
Acclimatization by Individual Adaptation.It is evident that acclimatization may occur (if it occurs at all) in two ways, either by modifying the constitution of the individual submitted to the new conditions, or by the production of offspring which may be better adapted to those conditions than their parents.
Acclimatization by Variation.A mass of evidence exists showing that variations of every conceivable kind occur among the offspring of all plants and animals, and that, in particular, constitutional variations are by no'means uncommon.
79.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AC/ACCLIMATIZATION.htm   (7354 words)

  
 Acclimatization
acclimatization) is the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and which are at first injurious to them.
In the case of the latter class, however, acclimation is a necessary preliminary to naturalization, and in many cases to useful domestication, and we have therefore to inquire whether it is possible.
The best examples of partial or complete acclimatisation are to be found where European races have permanently settled in the tropics, and have maintained themselves for several generations.
www.1902encyclopedia.com /A/ACC/acclimatization.html   (5868 words)

  
 SSE #65: Preparing Athletes for Competition in the Heat: Developing an Effective Acclimization Strat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Acclimatization is most effectively achieved by exercise in the heat; heat without exercise and exercise without heat are less effective.
An ideal approach to acclimatizing athletes to the heat may be a combination of increasing the level of heat exposure at home during the last 1-2 weeks before traveling and a well-designed heat-acclimatization program at the new site.
The acclimatization process requires the athlete to be exposed to sufficient heat stress for the necessary adaptations to take place, but there is a real danger that taking the process too far or too quickly can result in heat injury.
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 The Physician and Sportsmedicine: Keeping Sports Participants Safe in Hot Weather
Acclimatization is the process of physiologic and psychological adaptation to a new environment, such as when a person moves from a cool climate to a hot climate or simply adjusts from spring to summer.
Many of the physiologic benefits of heat acclimatization are similar to those of physical training: reduced heart rate, core temperature, and utilization of muscle glycogen, as well as increased cutaneous blood flow, plasma volume, red-cell filterability, and work time until exhaustion (2,3).
Acclimatization typically requires 10 to 14 days in the warmer environment, but 75% of the adaptation is believed to occur within 5 days (4).
www.physsportsmed.com /issues/1999/07_99/sparling.htm   (3652 words)

  
 Acclimatization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are no medicines that guard against acclimatizing to the altitude, and fitness is not a substitute (sometimes fit youngsters tend to have more problems).
Acclimatization is an inevitable and normal process that takes different timing on every individual.
It takes about 5 months living at the high altitude for the body to become completely acclimatized (actually it takes 3 generations to get fully acclimatized, so if you decide to live at high-altitudes, your grandchildren will be born with high altitude physiological adaptation).
www.sitamice.com /eco/acclimatization.php   (634 words)

  
 EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN STRATOSPHERIC OZONE AND GLOBAL CLIMATE
Acclimatized rates were computed by selecting present-day "analog cities" which resemble New York's predicted future weather and by developing weather/mortality algorithms for them.
We suggest that a lag in acclimatization to climatic change is likely, and factors such as the physical composition of the city (i.e., building construction designed to accommodate present weather conditions) will delay or prevent full acclimatization.
Using the algorithms for no acclimatization, this proportion is predicted to rise significantly as the weather warms, and since the deaths are standardized, this does not assume that the elderly will constitute a larger proportion of the population in the future.
www.ciesin.org /docs/001-337/001-337.html   (3511 words)

  
 OA Guide to High Altitude: Acclimatization and Illnesses
This process is known as acclimatization and generally takes 1-3 days at that altitude.
Acclimatization is often accompanied by fluid loss, so you need to drink lots of fluids to remain properly hydrated (at least 3-4 quarts per day).
The acclimatization process is inhibited by dehydration, over-exertion, and alcohol and other depressant drugs.
www.princeton.edu /~oa/safety/altitude.html   (2783 words)

  
 Human Biological Adaptability: Overview
The difference between the kinds of acclimatization is not only in the amount of time it takes for the adjustment to initially occur.
Acclimatization occurring in childhood may result in permanent anatomical changes, as is often the case with malnutrition.
When an acclimatization is successful in providing good health and longevity, it can give individuals a selective advantage in passing on their genes to the next generation.
anthro.palomar.edu /adapt/adapt_1.htm   (2290 words)

  
 ACCLIMATIZATION - Online Information article about ACCLIMATIZATION
Acclimatization by Individual Adaptation.—It is evident that acclimatization may occur (if it occurs at all) in two ways, either by modifying the constitution of the individual submitted to the new conditions, or by the See also:
Martin, from a consideration of the effects of the climate of India on Europeans and their offspring, believed that there is no such thing as acclimatization.
complete acclimatization are to be found where European races have permanently settled in the tropics, and have maintained themselves for several generations.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /A10_ADA/ACCLIMATIZATION.html   (6567 words)

  
 Acclimatization of Ficus benjamina: A Review
Ficus benjamina and its cultivars have been the focus of much of the foliage plant acclimatization research for the past 20 years because of their enormous popularity with the plant buying public and also because weeping figs are among the sun-shade plants most clearly benefiting from the acclimatization process.
High quality acclimatized plants were grown under shade in less time than the previously accepted acclimatization method of growing plants under full sun before subjecting them to an acclimatization period under low light.
Acclimatization also affected respiration rate and as a plant became fully acclimatized respiration rate declined dramatically which reduced carbohydrate requirements.
mrec.ifas.ufl.edu /Foliage/Resrpts/rh_91_5.htm   (3644 words)

  
 Pardoes Altitude & Acclimatization Page
A general discussion of the problems of high altitude is followed by a section on the process of acclimatization.
Acclimatization in this context means the deliberate, temporary modification of the response of the human body to increased altitude.
The extent to which a formal and managed acclimatization programme is required on any climb depends on the absolute altitude, the overall altitude gain, and especially on the amount of time for which it is planned to stay high [1].
www.pardoes.com /climbing/acclima.htm   (4530 words)

  
 Acclimatization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is ascertained that the second stage of acclimatization completely ends within three weeks after the beginning of the route.
It is this fact that must determine the planned duration of acclimatization period and influence the tactics of acclimatization.
The residence and the rest in the base camp 1 or 2 days renew your strength and secure a gained acclimatization keeping a certain balance between acclimatization and deterioration-the exhaustive emaciation of the organism, although a mountain-climber will never reach the level of his capacity for work in the plain conditions.
www.tropa.dp.ua /english/aklim.html   (727 words)

  
 Altitude Training
Acclimatization is appropriate for a relatively short period of exposure, such as when athletes are taken to an "altitude" camp for a month.
Since altitude acclimatization is a different stress to exercise stimulation, one should expect little transfer of the effects of altitude acclimatization.
Acclimatization to altitude occurs slowly and exercise quantity, and often quality, has to be reintroduced gradually.
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /dept/coachsci/csa/vol24/rushall1.htm   (1498 words)

  
 Tradgirl Mountaineering FAQ - Altitude and Acclimatization
Acclimatization is the process of the body adjusting to the decreasing availability of oxygen.
Factors that work in one's favor for acclimatization are being in good shape and being born at a high elevation.
But it is no substitute for drinking huge amounts of water, acclimating slowly, being in good shape (no one knows if this helps, but it is not likely to hurt), and paying good attention to your body.
www.tradgirl.com /climbing_faq/mountaineering/altitude.htm   (5062 words)

  
 Altitude: Acclimatization To Intermediate Altitudes
Because individuals with low iron stores are unable to increase their red cell mass in acclimatization, the diet should be supplemented with iron for those at risk, particularly menstruating females.
Resolution of the headache occurs with acclimatization to intermediate altitude.
Their acclimatization will occur more rapidly and with fewer symptoms if several recommendations are followed.
www.sportsci.org /encyc/altitaccl/altitaccl.html   (1967 words)

  
 Acclilatization to Cold Water
Cold acclimatization is a well-documented process of gradually increasing your resistance to cold injury through regular cold exposure.
Acclimatization means change from seasonal or geographical exposure; acclimation is change produced in a laboratory.
Seasonal acclimatization occurs in people working outdoors year round and fishermen who dunk their hands in cold water all winter to tend their nets.
scuba-doc.com /coldacclim.html   (2231 words)

  
 PDGF-beta receptor expression and ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia in the rat -- Alea et al. 279 (5): 1625 -- AJP ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
PDGF-beta receptor expression and ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia in the rat -- Alea et al.
Ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia is not dependent on cerebral hypocapnic alkalosis.
Ventilatory acclimatization to hypoxia is not dependent on arterial hypoxemia.
ajpregu.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/279/5/R1625   (5551 words)

  
 Various Authors, "Turbo Snail Problems and Acclimatization"; January 2001 on reef-l emaling list ... www.reefs.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As for a really slow acclimatization, how do you keep them warm, since I would think they need to be warm too.
NB: remember that it isn't a good idea to put water from the bag into your aquarium, especially in the case of fish that may have come from a system that was using copper.
I normally acclimate everything for anywhere from 1 1/2 to 3 hours, keep it floating if possible for temp and drip water in slowly.
www.reefs.org /library/article/snail_acclimatization.html   (3316 words)

  
 Heat
Units on alert, or identified for future deployment, should emphasize their physical training program and state of heat acclimatization (e.g., spend more time exercising in the heat where possible).
Acclimatization requires that progressively more physical activity be performed each day.
Heat acclimatization increases sweating to enhance the evaporative cooling capacity of the body.
www.usariem.army.mil /somalia/heat.htm   (2063 words)

  
 Acclimatizing delicate species
Ideally, the water parameters in the bag should be measured and compared to the water parameters in you tank.
The greater the differences in the water parameters (pH, dKH, Alk, salinity, nitrate and temperature) the slower the acclimatization should be.
Put creatures in the container where they will be acclimatized with the water they came in.
www.fishtanksandponds.net /live-stock/marine/acclimatize.htm   (504 words)

  
 Acclimatization
Acclimatization : The physiological and behavioral adjustments of an organism to changes in its environment.
Sea-level PCO2 relates to ventilatory acclimatization at 4300 m.
Heat Fatigue is often caused by a lack of acclimatization.
www.mongabay.com /reference/environment/Acclimatization.html   (279 words)

  
 Acclimatization to 4,300-m altitude decreases reliance on fat as a substrate -- Roberts et al. 81 (4): 1762 -- Journal ...
Acclimatization to 4,300-m altitude decreases reliance on fat as a substrate -- Roberts et al.
Acclimatization to 4,300-m altitude decreases reliance on fat as a substrate
Acclimatization decreased both fatty acid consumption and glycerol release by the leg.
jap.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/81/4/1762   (5414 words)

  
 Increases in submaximal cycling efficiency mediated by altitude acclimatization -- Green et al. 89 (3): 1189 -- Journal ...
to occur with altitude acclimatization is a change in net mechanical efficiency (16).
Effects of submaximal exercise and acclimatization on HR (A) and blood lactate (B).
norepinephrine that occurs with acclimatization (1, 24, 25).
jap.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/89/3/1189   (4571 words)

  
 NCAA DIVISION III PRESIDENTS COUNCIL DISCUSSES IMMEDIATE CHANGES TO PRE-SEASON FOOTBALL, FUTURE OF DIVISION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The model is related to heat acclimatization and recovery time and provides specific guidelines for student-athlete health and safety during preseason practice.
During the first two days of the acclimatization period, helmets shall be the only piece of protective equipment student-athletes may wear.
During the next two days of the acclimatization period, helmets and shoulder pads shall be the only pieces of protective equipment student-athletes may wear.
www.ncaa.org /releases/diviii/2003042501d3.htm   (1270 words)

  
 Active.com - Acclimatization is key for high altitude mountain bike racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Acclimatization is key for high altitude mountain bike racing
The net effect of this acclimatization to high altitudes is a gradual improvement in the performance as you go harder or higher on your trail rides or races.
Although a diminished oxygen supply to the blood is the most obvious environmental factor at high altitude, dehydration from low humidity is also a factor to consider.
www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=7327   (782 words)

  
 Acclimatization - climbers guide to Everest
This acclimatization has left us well adapted to the altitude and strong for the summit attempt.
You could skip one of the acclimatization steps only if you are seriously running out of time.
Our experience is however that it is well worth the risk, due to the significant benefit that the stay on low altitude has on the body.
www.mounteverest.net /expguide/accli.htm   (546 words)

  
 University of Utah Wilderness Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The drop in barometric pressure and, therefore, the partial pressure of oxygen results in hypobaric hypoxia- the insult of high altitude.
  Acclimatization is a stereotypical set of physiological responses that occurs over time in response to this insult.
Graded ascent is the safest method to facilitate acclimatization and prevent altitude illness.
www-medlib.med.utah.edu /WildernessMedicine/subman_ch13.htm   (1241 words)

  
 Rat Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptors and Brown Adipose Tissue Function during Cold Acclimatization -- ...
BAT was isolated from rats acclimatized to cold for 4 days and analyzed by immunoelectron microscopy.
Panel A, the volume density of peroxisomes was expressed as the ratio of the area of peroxisomes to the cytoplasmic area, excluding lipid droplets (open circles).
Schematic summary of the morphological, biochemical, and molecular changes in BAT during acclimatization to cold.
www.jbc.org /cgi/content/full/274/33/23368   (5879 words)

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