Influence of bright light exposure for several hours during the daytime on cutaneous vasodilatation and local sweating induced by an exercise heat load

European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 303-307

  Aizawa, Seika ^a   Tokura, Hiromi ^a  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cutaneous vasodilatation; Light intensity; Setpoint; Sweat rate; Threshold; Tympanic temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERAGE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; EARDRUM; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SWEATING; VASODILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EXERTION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEAT; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SWEATING; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; VASODILATION;

EID: 0031716549     PISSN: 03015548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004210050424     Document Type: Article

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