Chronic hormone replacement therapy does not alter resting or maximal skin blood flow

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 505-510

  Brooks Asplund, E M ^a   Kenney, W L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous blood flow; Estrogen; Postmenopausal women; Progesterone; Vascular conductance; Vasodilation

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 0031904978     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1998.85.2.505     Document Type: Article

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