Increased activation of sympathetic nervous system and endothelin by mental stress in normotensive offspring of hypertensive parents

Circulation

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 866-869

  Noll, Georg ^a,b   Wenzel, René R ^a   Schneider, Martin ^b   Oesch, Valerie ^a   Binggeli, Christian ^a   Shaw, Sidney ^b   Weidmann, Peter ^b   Lüscher, Thomas F ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

hypertension; hypoxia; nervous system; stress

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN; NORADRENALIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PATHOGENESIS; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0029991145     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.5.866     Document Type: Article

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