Relationship between skin blood flow and sweating rate in prepubertal boys and young men

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-110

  Shibasaki, M ^a,b   Inoue, Y ^c   Kondo, N ^b   Aoki, K ^d   Hirata, K ^b  

^a NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOBE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cutaneous vasodilation; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Maturation; Sweating; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BACK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREARM; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOWER LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEATING; THERMOGENESIS; THIGH; THORAX;

ADULT; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CHILD; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; SWEATING; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 0032698875     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201x.1999.00597.x     Document Type: Article

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