Reaction of capillary blood cell velocity in nailfold capillaries to L-carnitine in patients with vasospastic disease

Drugs under Experimental and Clinical Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-43

  Gasser, P ^a,b   Martina, B ^a   Dubler, B ^b  

^a University ORL Clinic   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY EYE CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE;

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARY BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MICROCIRCULATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASOSPASM;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARIES; CARNITINE; COLD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; PILOT PROJECTS; RAYNAUD DISEASE; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031002244     PISSN: 03786501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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