Arterial pressure in humans during weightlessness induced by parabolic flights

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 928-932

  Pump, Bettina ^a   Videbæk, Regitze ^a   Gabrielsen, Anders ^a   Norsk, Peter ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atrium; Baroreceptors; Blood pressure; Gravitation; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPACE FLIGHT; VASODILATATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0032870172     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1999.87.3.928     Document Type: Article

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