Human calf precapillary resistance decreases in response to small cumulative increases in venous congestion pressure

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 507, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 611-617

  Gamble, J ^a   Christ, F ^b   Gartside, I B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY RESISTANCE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIAL ARTERY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VENOUS PRESSURE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BLOOD VOLUME; ECHOGRAPHY; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LEG VEIN; PREDICTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REFERENCE VALUE; VENOUS CONGESTION;

ADULT; ARM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIBIAL ARTERIES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEINS;

EID: 0032032539     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.611bt.x     Document Type: Article

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