The sympathetic skin response in peripheral autonomic failure - Evaluation in pure autonomic failure, pure cholinergic dysautonomia and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase deficiency

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 133-138

  Magnifico, F ^a,b,c   Misra, V P ^b   Murray, N M F ^a   Mathias, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic failure; Cholinergic dysautonomia; Dopamine beta hydroxylase deficiency; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BREATHING; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSAUTONOMIA; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE TRACT; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SWEAT GLAND; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SKIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0031833740     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02281117     Document Type: Article

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