Plasma neurotransmitters, blood pressure and heart rate during supine- resting, orthostasis and moderate exercise stress test in healthy humans before and after parasympathetic blockade with atropine

Research Communications in Biological Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 55-72

  Lechin, F ^a,c   Van Der Dijs, B ^a   Orozco, B ^a   Baez, S ^a   Rada, I ^a   Garcia, G Z ^a   Jara, H ^a   Lechin, A E ^b   Lechin, M E ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ATROPINE; DOPAMINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; REST; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 0030448029     PISSN: 03622428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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