Human sudomotor responses to heating and cooling upper-body skin surfaces: Cutaneous thermal sensitivity

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 289-296

  Patterson, M J ^a   Cotter, J D ^a   Taylor, N A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body temperature regulation; Central sudomotor drive; Skin temperature; Sweating; Thermal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLOTHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING;

EID: 0031815152     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201x.1998.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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