Rapid vasodilation in response to a brief tetanic muscle contraction

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1741-1746

  Naik, Jay S ^a   Valic, Zoran ^a   Buckwalter, John B ^a   Clifford, Philip S ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Blood flow; Dog; Exercise; Muscle pump; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; VECURONIUM;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HYPEREMIA; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0032748437     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1999.87.5.1741     Document Type: Article

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