Sympathetic skin response following thermal, electrical, acoustic, and inspiratory gasp stimulation in familial dysautonomia patients and healthy persons

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 165-177

  Hilz, Max J ^a,b   Axelrod, Felicia B ^a   Schweibold, Gisela ^b   Kolodny, Edwin H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Familial dysautonomia; Small nerve fiber testing; Sympathetic skin response

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSAUTONOMIA; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOCICEPTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DYSAUTONOMIA, FAMILIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0032736839     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02330480     Document Type: Article

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