Oct. 25 – The Physiology Department of the University of Siena is participating in the Italian scientific and humanitarian mission to Ama Dablan, a 6.858 meter peak in Nepal, deemed to leave next Tuesday. The scientific mission will focus on registering different reactions between men and women to extraordinary climate conditions, from a physiological point of view: re-productivity rate, metabolism, muscle tone, psychophysical performances during a 20 days trek to the CNR Everest base. This is one of the first studies that will describe the functional systemic, biochemical and cellular changes due to extended exposure to lack of oxygen from physical activity to happen in a group of healthy, fertile women. Professors Anna Maria Aloisi and Luana Paulesu are at the head of the scientific project centered precisely on observing physical reactions in the female reproductive organs, and registering pain and other adaptation mechanisms to such a high altitude.
