Suppression of the reactive hyperemic response in the forearm due to local hand cooling

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-50

  Kilgour, Robert D ^a   Carranza, Alvin ^a   Findlay, Ronald ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; COOLING; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSOR RESPONSE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CRYOTHERAPY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0031024002     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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