Control of skin blood flow by whole body and local skin cooling in exercising humans

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 270, Issue 1 39-1, 1996, Pages

  Pérgola, Pablo E ^b   Johnson, John M ^b   Kellogg Jr , Dean L ^b   Kosiba, Wojciech A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

bretylium; environmental cooling; internal temperature; iontophoresis; laser Doppler flowmetry; peripheral circulation; regional blood flow; thermoregulatory reflexes; vasoconstriction; vasodilation

Indexed keywords

BRETYLIUM TOSYLATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COOLING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0030062179     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1996.270.1.h208     Document Type: Article

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