| abstract |
The present invention provides an application of a bacterium that metabolizes butyric acid to prepare a medicine for preventing and/or treating altitude sickness. Hypoxic environment can inhibit the increase of mean pulmonary arterial pressure, the decrease of right ventricular ejection fraction and right ventricular fractional shortening, and the increase of right ventricular specific gravity, which has a protective effect on pulmonary hypertension and right heart hypertrophy. The present invention also provides a medicine for preventing and/or treating altitude sickness, and a method for regulating the abundance of bacteria that metabolize butyric acid. |