Human muscle sympathetic activity and cardiac catecholamine spillover: No support for augmented sympathetic noradrenaline release by adrenaline co-transmission

Clinical Science

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 383-393

  Thompson, Jane M ^a   Wallin, B Gunnar ^b   Lambert, Gavin W ^a   Jennings, Garry L ^a   Esler, Murray D ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adrenaline; Isometric exercise; Muscle sympathetic activity; Noradrenaline kinetics

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN; TRACER;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADRENALIN RELEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HAND GRIP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROGRAPHY; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0031976936     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0940383     Document Type: Article

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