Sympathetic outflow to muscle in humans during short periods of microgravity produced by parabolic flight

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 277, Issue 2 46-2, 1999, Pages

  Iwase, Satoshi ^a   Mano, Tadaaki ^a   Cui, Jian ^a   Kitazawa, Hiroki ^a   Kamiya, Atsunori ^a   Miyazaki, Seiji ^a   Sugiyama, Yoshiki ^a   Mukai, Chiaki ^b   Nagaoka, Shunji ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baroreflex; Hypergravity; Microneurography; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0032879740     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.277.2.r419     Document Type: Article

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