Muscle length directs sympathetic nerve activity and vasomotor tone in resistance vessels of hamster retractor

Circulation Research

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 551-559

  Welsh, Donald G ^a   Segal, Steven S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

arterioles; feed arteries; mechanotransduction; microcirculation; perivascular sympathetic nerves

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0029797977     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.79.3.551     Document Type: Article

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