Comparison of responses evoked by mild indirect cooling and by sound in the forearm vasculature in patients with homozygous sickle cell disease and in normal subjects

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-30

  Mohan, Junette S ^a   Marshall, Janice M ^b,d   Reid, H L ^a   Thomas, P W ^c   Hambleton, Ian ^c   Serjeant, G R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Medical School   (United Kingdom)

^c Med Research Council Laboratories   (Jamaica)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Key forearm vascular resistance; Sickle cell disease

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FOREARM; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL CRISIS; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SOUND; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; COLD; FOREARM; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 0031904992     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02267600     Document Type: Article

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