Alterations in skeletal muscle microcirculation of head-down tilted rats

Acta Physiologica Hungarica

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-42

  Stepke, B ^a,c   Fleming, J T ^b   Joshua, I G ^b   Musacchia, X J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Cremaster muscle; Head down tilt; Hypertension; Rats; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULARIZATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; HEAD-DOWN TILT; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NITROPRUSSIDE; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0030344826     PISSN: 0231424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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